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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.
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 ...
A former child actress, [3] [4] she is best known for her work in The Gunfighter (1950). [5] Early years. Westcott was born on New Year's Day, 1928.
12. The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950) With a theme resembling a Greek tragedy that evolved into one of the great Western clichés, ageing gunslinger Gregory Peck tries to put his bloody past ...
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 ...
The Gunfighter, American silent film starring William S. Hart; The Gunfighter, a 1923 American silent western film; Gunfighters, a 1947 American Western film directed by George Waggner; The Gunfighter, a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck; The Gunfighter, a 1983 Filipino film starring Lito Lapid
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton
Also in 1950, Parker returned to film with a supporting role in The Gunfighter opposite Gregory Peck, playing a saloon singer. [2] The following year, in 1951, while appearing at a nightclub in Sydney, Australia , [ 31 ] Parker made international headlines when she was escorted off Bondi Beach by swimsuit inspector Abe Laidlaw, who measured her ...