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The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and Karl Malden.It was written by screenwriters William Bowers and William Sellers, with an uncredited rewrite by writer and producer Nunnally Johnson, from a story by Bowers, Roger Corman, and screenwriter and director Andre de Toth.
When Westcott was 4 years old, she appeared in a series of short films. At 5, she appeared in the full-length Thunder Over Texas. [7] She appeared opposite Gregory Peck in the western classic The Gunfighter released in 1950.
Set in the Wyoming Territory in 1889, the film follows the titular character, a gunfighter with a mysterious past who becomes embroiled in a conflict between poor homesteaders and wealthy ranchers. [8] The novel and film were both inspired by the Johnson County War (1888–1893). [8] The film was released by Paramount Pictures on April 23, 1953.
Homeier changed his first name from Skippy to Skip when he turned eighteen. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles. [5]Although Homeier worked frequently throughout his childhood and adolescence, playing wayward youths with no chance of redemption, he did not become a major star, but he did make a transition from child actor to adult, especially in a range of roles as delinquent ...
Henry King – The Gunfighter (1950), The Bravados (1958) Sergio Leone – the Spaghetti Western Dollars Trilogy featuring Clint Eastwood: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); as well as Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Gunfighter (1950) I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) David and Bathsheba (1951) O. Henry's Full House (1952) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Untamed (1955) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Carousel (1956) The Sun Also Rises (1957) The Bravados (1958) This ...
Peck began the 1950s with two Westerns, the first being The Gunfighter (1950), directed by Henry King, who had worked with him previously on Twelve O'Clock High. Peck plays an aging "Top Gun of the West" who is now weary of killing and wishes to retire with his alluring but pragmatic wife and his seven-year-old son, both of whom he has not seen ...
In 1950 he was Oscar nominated for the gritty Gregory Peck Western, The Gunfighter at Fox. Bowers wrote Convicted (1950) for Columbia, Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1951) for MGM, Cry Danger (1951) for Robert Parrish at RKO, The Mob (1951) for Parrish at Columbia, and The San Francisco Story (1952) for Parrish at RKO.