
Cool, cultured John Gant rides into Lordsburg. Gant is a professional killer, and although no one knows who he is there to kill, they are all worried. Everyone has enemies, and maybe Gant is in town for them. While they wait for him to make his move, paranoia starts taking over...... (Full plot summary below)
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Cool, cultured John Gant rides into Lordsburg. Gant is a professional killer, and although no one knows who he is there to kill, they are all worried. Everyone has enemies, and maybe Gant is in town for them. While they wait for him to make his move, paranoia starts taking over...
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| User ReviewJoshua NIt might change the way you look at life and death. The star, Audie Murphy was one the greatest American infantryman heroes of WWII. |
| User ReviewJono SThe point of Paradise Lost is that evil knows what is held in the mind of the good. But taken one step further, what if evil delivers itself to good only to destroy itself for the possibility of becoming good and also to show what is good how good it really is? That is why there can be no name on the bullet. Because evil can shift, and it can be wiped out, too, for even a moment. |
| User Reviewneil heveryone who likes movies needs to see this! |
| User ReviewRosaleen LSurprisingly good. The pace is slow but still engaging. |
| User ReviewBleak MAn oddly disturbing Western, in which Murphy plays a complex psychopath - and the closest thing to a hero in this bleak drama of death and fear. |
| User ReviewJochen W"Everything comes to its finish." In nur 74 Minuten erzählt Jack Arnold einen beeindruckend dichten, psychologisch komplexen Western. Keine Sekunde verschenkt, pointiert inszeniert und auf den Punkt arrangiert: Genau so muss ein B-Movie aussehen. |
| User ReviewMona MI've seen three very interesting movies in the last couple of days. First I finally caught up with "The Full Monty". I know I'm probably one of the last people in the English speaking world to see this movie but it turned out to be as good as advertised, very funny of course but with an undercurrent of tragedy in how the closing of the steel factories and loss of work had really emasculated the lead characters, so much so that the only way they could escape from their misery for a while to be male strippers for one night, and even then you knew things were still going to be crap for them the next day. Then I saw or rather, experienced, "Napoleon Dynamite". There are movies that self-conciously try to be weird and funny (Calling Kevin Smith.) and movies that are strange and hopelessly bent from the word go. "Napoleon Dynamite" is so out there it seems to have dropped in from an alternate universe. Where do you start? The hero with his red Chia-Pet perm and "sweet" moon boots? His equally nerdy brother who spends his time chatting with women on the internet but by film's end, is going off to Detroit with a beautiful black woman decked out like an authentic hoodie rat? Uncle Rico, the tupperware and breat enhancement pills salesman with the Scott Baio haircut? The pet llama? The way half the characters in the movie seem to walk around in a stoned daze? I was laughing at this thing from the first minute and didn't stop until the closing wedding sequence by which time the sight ofNapoleon riding a horse across the countryside to present as the happy couple's honermoon car seems perfectly logical This movie is the offspring of a shotgun marriage between David Lynch and Buster Keaton and I loved it. Certain other directors' movies about rambling stoners can't hold a candle to it. Then Sautrday morning I ran across an unexpected gem on TCM, "No Name On The Bullet", a 1959 Audie Murphy western that was very unconventional. In fact transported to another setting like an outer space colony, it would have made a nifty episode of The Twilight Zone. Murphy played a hired killer who one day rides into a small town and checks into the hotel, giving no indication of why he's there. The fun part is he almost doesn't need to do anything else. Everyone in town knows he's an assassin and those with a shady past freaks out, thinking he's been hired to kill them. Before the movie ends, there's a suicide, a gunfight and a bunch of dead bodies, none of it directly caused by Murphy. In fact though he does shoot and wound a couple of characters, Murphy's character doesn't kill anyone in the film. There are some obvious themes about the dirty secrets in people's pasts and fear leading to hysteria, but those are never stated explicitly. Instead Murphy and the movie's one heroic character, a doctor, have conversations about guilt, punishment and the inevitability of death. At the end of the film, Murphy rides off with his gun arm broken andhis dialogue gives the strong suggestion that the next time he's in a gunfight he expects to lose. Heavy stuff and I'm really surprised this movie hasn't seem to have gotten any attention among film buffs. It's very well made and a bold statement for its day, a time when Red baiting and the Hollywood Blacklist were still around and it wasn't cool to go on about paranoia and the dark side of American life. |
| User Reviewdavid tAudie Murphy was one of my childhood idols.. Nobody could shoot as straight as he could.. |
| User ReviewClay BA bit of a psychological and in some points philosophical western which is very dramatic and enjoyable. The story of a hired assassin coming into a town and the town's residence throwing themselves in panic and fear; each one believing they are the target and how certain ones react is excellent. The other good aspect of the film is the way that it is drawn out until the very end to find out who the actual victim is going to be. The ending itself is different, very interesting and does work with the film. The local Doctor is the only one who does not fear the killer and the conversations that they have are philosophical and very thought provoking. There is hardly any action within the film but there is enough drama and suspense to compensate for it. Audie Murphy is perfect in the role of John Gant, the killer, his style of acting of being emotionless and wooden is very suitable for the role. Charles Drake is also quite good as Doctor Canfield and the dialogue which both Gant and Canfield share is excellent. The supporting cast are also pretty good as the petrified citizens each of which displays very believable fear. Overall a very well written well thought out film which is both dramatic and thought provoking. It is also very well acted by both the principal actors and the supporting cast. |
| User ReviewPrivate UParanoia starts to develop when an assassin rides into town but won't name his victim. Good performances from relative unknowns, screenplay by Gene Coon, best known for some solid work on early Star Trek episodes in the sixties. |