Shotgun
ROPEBAIT and RIFFRAFF...hot-blooded gunman and trail town Jezebel...
Directed by Lesley Selander
Produced by Allied Artists Pictures
A mid-1950s Western revenge tale that trades a peaceful future for pursuit of a killer, driven by duty and complicated by frontier romance and racial tensions.
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.
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Like Shotgun
Nearest across the full emotional profile.
Same Mood as Shotgun
Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.
Like Shotgun, But Darker
Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.
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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.
Like Shotgun, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
