Gunpoint (1966)

6/10

revdrcac25 May 2006

Audie Murphy's western films of the 1950's were entertaining, action-filled and capitalized on his likable, resolute personality. The budgets for those '50's films were higher than his subsequent films in the 1960's. This average film has that weakness, but is still entertaining when viewed in that context.

This film's mediocre budget and production values disappoint, while still showcasing those aspects of Audie Murphy's talent that always appealed to his many fans. I especially liked the casting in this one, with western favorites Royal Dano and the crusty old Edgar Buchanan.

For fans of Murphy, this one is a must see...... for others, watch it in context and you will be surprised. Worth a closer look .........

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7/10

It never pays to even the odds!

hitchcockthelegend6 September 2019

Gunpoint is directed by Earl Bellamy and written by Mary and Willard Willingham. It stars Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle, David Macklin, Nick Dennis and Royal Dano. Music is by Hans J. Salter and Technicolor cinematography by William Margulies.

It's early 1880s Colorado and lawlessness is rife, mostly perpetrated by The Drago Gang who were able to enact their crimes and escape afterwards to the sanctuary of their New Mexico stronghold. One man, however, is not going to go down without a fight, the sheriff of Lodgepole, Chad Lucas (Murphy).

There's a school of thought that Audie Murphy's 1960s Westerns are far weaker than his 1950s ones? Which with one or two exceptions is rightly the case. The decade brought a wind of change in the Western genre, for soon Spaghetti would offer something new on the menu and revisionism was not far away either. With most of Audie's 60s output hindered by budget restrictions and a battle against the changing tide, one has to just hope there's enough on offer to not waste your time.

Gunpoint is a right mixed bag that shows the best and worst of Audie's genre output of the decade. Murphy is just fine in is characterisation, his fans suitably catered for, while around him is a stoic and reliable group of Western performers. There's some nifty stunt work on show, plenty of action (property destruction, horse pursuits, shoot-outs etc), and the location photography out of Utah (St. George/Snow Canyon State Park) is gorgeous. While there's also a splendid old fashioned locomotive to enjoy as well.

Narratively it's not high end, though a turn of events suggesting our hero to shockingly be a bully of sorts - which gives him emotional conflict - is a smart addition. Unfortunately the good in the production is off set by poor rear protection and polystyrene props etc, which while still carrying nostalgic value, comes with a hint of sadness of where these productions had landed at. Still, this is far from a waste of time, it holds all the requisite genre tropes for fans of Audie and the "B" Westerns we loved so much in the 50s. 6.5/10

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5/10

What A Posse Audie Murphy Had

bkoganbing10 March 2007

There's a murderous outlaw named Drago played by Morgan Woodward who keeps committing all kinds of crime in the state of Colorado and then running back to the New Mexico territory where the local sheriffs can't catch him.

That's not going to stop Audie Murphy, sheriff of Lodgepole, Colorado. Woodward's robbed a train that was carrying funds for the bank and because he's got the town nest egg, a lot of businesses will fold.

Murphy puts together a posse to go after Woodward and it's some posse, with just about everybody in it working off their own agenda. There is no way Murphy should have accomplished his mission in this film.

Which is of course why Gunpoint, though entertaining, is highly unrealistic. Still a nice cast of western veterans give Murphy some good support. Particular to note are Warren Stevens as the saloon owner and Edgar Buchanan as a leader of a family of equally bad rawhiders whose camp the posse stumbles across.

Gunpoint has a lot of action and a great cast that make up for a highly unrealistic story.

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7/10

Decent Audie Murphy western

Tweekums25 June 2012

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The film opens with a series of shots of a group out outlaws attacking trains and towns while a voice-over informs us that they are the Drago Gang; scourge of Colorado. They strike without warning before retreating into New Mexico Territory outside the jurisdiction of Colorado lawmen. Chad Lucas, Sheriff of the border town of Lodgepole, believes they will be the next victims as a train is due to deliver money for the bank. He and Cap, his deputy, ride out to prevent a robbery but the gang are there first preparing to stop the train. He tells Cap to return to town while he rides ahead to warn the train. He catches up with it and makes his way along the roof towards the engine not knowing that Cap has followed him! The man he trusted shoots him in the back of the head and leaves him for dead. Once the robbery is over Cap returns to town; claiming to have searched for Chad. Just as he is about to be made the new sheriff Chad staggers in; he is keen to head south into New Mexico but is told they will signal for a US Marshall. Somebody stops the signal being sent so he is given permission to lead a posse south. His first stop is the casino run by Nate Harlan. Drago is there but flees grabbing singer Uvalde as a hostage. They give pursuit along with Harlan; following Drago through Apache territory and over mountains until they finally confront him in is hideout. His task isn't made easier by the fact that he doesn't know of Cap's treachery or the enmity he holds towards him and even when it looks like Chad's worries are over he finds himself in a fight over Uvalde or Bonnie as he knew her from many years before.

One always knows what you are getting with an Audie Murphy western; plenty of action from start to finish and a good solid hero. The action here includes the attack on the train, a fight against angry Apaches, climbing over a mountain, stampeding horses and a good final shootout. As with many westerns there is a love triangle; it is a little cliché but still adds some interest to the story and provides an excuse to have a beautiful woman, in this case Joan Staley, riding with the posse once they've rescued her. The scenery is pretty impressive; it was tiring just watching them trying to take their horses over the mountain. I found the film to be almost indistinguishable in style from similar films made ten to fifteen years before but that didn't spoil it; if you have a formula that works why fiddle with it?!

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6/10

Routine and ordinary Western about a relentless pursuit with Audie Murphy as a stubborn and blinded sheriff

ma-cortes28 November 2020

After a violent robbing, a posse is created to pursue the cutthroats. As a Colorado sheriff called Chad : Audie Murphy, and a suspicious deputy : Denver Pyle along with a gambler : Warren Stevens, chase a band of train robbers who have abducted a woman, Joan Staley, an old flame of the obstinate marshall. Things go wrong when the posse goes into New Mexico, a territory where sheriff Murphy doesn't have jurisdiction. The ominous gang is led by a ruthless nasty, Morgan Woodward, and all them are attacked by Apache Indians. The story of a town with a gun in its back !.

Passable but neither notable, not extraordinary, but a run-of-the mill Audie Murphy Western from his worst and final period. That's why Audie was in his fall, in late sixties when he made low-budget westerns as " Texas Kid, 40 guns to Apache Pass, Legend of Sam Guard, Apache rifles" . While in the 50s Murphy played better and more budgeted Westerns such as : "Night passage, Column South, Duel at Silver Creek , Ride a crooked trail , The Red badge of courage , Cimarron Kid" . Besides, Audie made some other notorious non-Western films as "The American" and his self-biography : " To hell and back" . Murphy was the most decorated soldier in WWII and in "Gunpoint" Audie gives a cool acting as a determined sheriff who seeks for justice, but he is partially blinded, spoiling his attempts to shoot and defenceless against enemies . Here Audie is well accompanied by a good cast, many of them familar faces in Western genre, such as : Warren Stevens, Denver Pyle, John Hoyt, Edgar Buchanan, Roy Barcroft, Mike Ragan, Robert Pine's film debut and Morgan Woodward as the cruel villain.

It contains a thrilling and moving musical score by Hans J. Salter, Universal Pictures's regular. As well as atmospheric and functional cinematography by William Margulies. The motion picture was professionally directed by Earl Bellamy. This prolific filmmaker shot hundreds of television episodes and some films. As Earl made episodes of known and popular TV series such as : " V , Blue Thunder, Fantasy island, Get Smart, young Daniel Boone, Lassie, Fury, Masquerade, US Marshall, I spy, Resltless gun, Mike Hammer, Crusader" . And a few feature films , such as : " 3 guns for Texas, The toughest gun in Tombstone , Seminola uprising , Fluffy , Incident at Phantom Hill , Walking tall 2" , among others. Rating 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable. The flick will appeal to Audie Murphy fans.

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7/10

Better Than Average Murphy Oater!

bsmith555223 May 2018

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"Gunpoint" is a grim but entertaining Audie Murphy Universal western. A competent supporting cast makes this one even better. It is a violent tale with a high body count to boot.

Drago Leon (Morgan Woodward) leads a gang of outlaws spreading terror throughout Colorado. They return to New Mexico where they are free from Colorado law. A train carrying a large sum of money is on it's way to town. Sheriff Chad Lucas (Murphy) and his deputy Cap (Denver Pyle) ride to warn the train of Drago's planned robbery. Cap jealous over Chad's appointment as sheriff has warned the gang and attempts to kill Chad.

Chad returns to town unaware of Cap's treachery. When newspaper editor Tom Emerson (Ford Rainey) is murdered, Chad decides to take the law into his own hands and crosses the state line where Drago and his men are celebrating at gambler Nate Harlan's (Warren Stevens) saloon. His fiancée Uvaldo (Joan Staley is performing as Chad enters. Drago grabs Uvaldi and flees with her in tow.

Chad forms a posse of townsfolk and pursues the gang. Harlan rides ahead and precipitates an Indian attack where several posse members are either killed or wounded. Most of the posse members return to town leaving only five to continue the pursuit. They are Chad, Harlan, young Mark Emerson (David Macklin), Cap and Chad's friend Nicos (Nick Dennis).

Along the way, Cap tries to kill Chad but kills Nicos instead. Chad is now suspicious of his deputy. As they close in on the gang, Drago stampedes a herd of wild horses towards them. At that moment Cap gets the drop on Chad but is trampled by the stampede. The others stumble upon an apparent abandoned camp. However mustangers Bull (Edgar Buchanan) and his two sons Ode (Royal Dano) and Ab (Kelly Thorson) arrive. They accuse Chad and the others of stampeding their horses and plan to kill them.

Harlan intervenes and offers the old man a cut of the stolen loot in return for their lives. Later Drago and his gang attack the camp and....................................................................................

The mystery of Uvalde's kidnapping is never explained. Since we later find out that her brother (Robert Pine) is a member of the gang, was she really kidnapped? And where did she get the perfectly fitting outfit that she is wearing when she is fleeing Indians later on? Murphy's fight with the much larger Thorson is a little hard to believe given their size differences.

Murphy gives one of his better performances as the determined Chad. Stevens as always, provides great support. Staley is too beautiful to be taken seriously as a trail hardened female lead. Woodward as Drago doesn't get enough screen time. Denver Pyle is also good as the snake in the grass Deputy. John Hoyt as the Mayor, Mike Ragan as Zack, a gang member and veteran bad guy Roy Barcroft as Dr. Beardsley also appear.

Is it just me or doesn't David Macklin look like a young Martin Landau?

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6/10

End Of The Trail

boblipton6 March 2021

The old sheriff has been killed during Morgan Woodward's raid and carrying off of lots of money in gold. His deputy, Audie Murphy is appointed sheriff. He takes off with a posse.... and everyone has an axe to grind.

It's Murphy's last western in his long deal with Universal, and the problem is that the 'shaky A' western he starred in had run its course. There was a new western in town, the Spaghetti Western, where there are no good guys; if you rooted for Clint Eastwood, it's because he got done dirt at the beginning of the movie, and Eli Wallach and Lee van Cleef are worse. Murphy's west was corrupt and violent, but Murphy himself was mostly clean, and he would restore order by the end of the movie, and get the girl, here ex-Playboy centerfold Joan Staley. So he goes and gets the job done, despite Warren Stevens and Edgar Buchanan and Denver Pyle, and hooray! But people didn't want that any more.

There's a certain tiredness to the movie, despite some nice camerawork by William Margulies.

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5/10

In His Sights

richardchatten26 December 2020

One of Audie Murphy's last westerns. It's the usual assembly-line job most of whose more spectacular moments are stock footage but it's all perfectly competent, well-acted and in Joan Staley has a robust leading lady who can convincingly ride a horse. (The women in westerns tend to be either schoolteachers or saloon girls; Miss Staley is the latter, and she's plainly ridden more than just horses in the past.)

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7/10

One of last good movies of Audie Murphy!!!

elo-equipamentos19 February 2020

As I said before I'm a great appreciator of Audie Murphy's B-Movie, even this one was one of the latest of his long career, is self-evident that Murphy already older and the film's quality is no longer were in the same level with the previous one, however this an interesting movie as well, He Plays a Sheriff Chad Lucas in charge to deliver a large amount of money carry by train to the Bank, he and his Deputy Cap (Denver Pyle) has been escorted by horses, meanwhile the Drago's gang already obstructed the railroad falling down the water reservoir, he gets up on a train's roof but he was hit by a bullet and felt down almost dying, then he settles a posse to chase Drago's gang who escape taking a his former fiancée Uvalde (Joan Staley) bringing together the newest Uvalde's lover Nate Harlan (Warren Stevens), in the way they fight with Indians until meeting a three horse's hunter leading by the fabulous Edgar Buchanan, what a character, this is the best part of the movie nearby a beauty waterfall's spot, also a little reference to Greek Nicos (Nick Demos) actually a colorful character who improve the movie widely , fine entertainment!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

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3/10

Gunpoint (1966) and Night Passage (1957) have the same film scenes.

rheavner-4236012 June 2023

Night Passage staring Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy, filmed in 1957 is a far better film, acting and story line wise, than the 1966 film Gunpoint.

Gunpoint staring Audie Murphy also took film scenes from Night Passage. Although I had never seeing the film Gunpoint before, I felt like I was seeing something that I had. Right from the beginning where the train is being robbed, its identical footage, other than the gang of train robbers.

Which made it appear to be a low budget film with poor acting it became boring😴 to watch. Although neither of the films I consider the best works of either actor, far from it. Gunpoint seemed to have been screened written by a junior high student as Night Passage a much more professionalism written film perhaps a senior in college writing level.

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8/10

Good Murphy western

coltras3521 May 2021

This is Audie Murphy's last universal western ( whether, as according to producer Gordon Kay, he would have made more for the studio till 1968 if he hadn't starred in westerns for other studios at the time is up in the air), and it's a fitting end, especially considering that the state of the western genre in 1966 was faraway from the traditional approach that Gunpoint takes. It has typical genre tropes like a train robbery, kidnapping, horse stampede, Apache attack and gunfights, and the story is very much straightforward.

Sheriff Chad Lucas is shot and left for dead by his treacherous Deputy while a gang of outlaws pull off a million dollar train robbery. But Lucas is not dead and he sets out to track down the robbers through hostile Apache territory - and with a deadly enemy in his own posse who is just waiting for the chance to strike again.

Personally, I don't understand the negative reviews of this Murphy oater, as it delivers as a traditional western, and has some exciting action scenes, good characterisation ( Denver Pyle, Warren Stevens and Audie himself). It's routine but still a good watch, a sad goodbye to how the genre was going and to Audie, who shows that 15 years of acting experience has paid off. He's really good as the cold, but determined sheriff. I like the song featured in here too - quite hummable.

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6/10

Audie Murphy western

michaelRokeefe8 July 2018

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This Audie Murphy vehicle is directed by Earl Bellamy and a low budget shouldn't harm a viewer's interest. Storyline may be a little weaker than some of Murphy's previous projects, but very watchable just the same. A gang of ruthless outlaws led by Drago (Morgan Woodward) wipes out the bank of Lodgepole, Colorado. He will kidnap a lovely saloon singer, Uvalde (Joan Staley) and join up with his gang. Healing from previous gunshot wounds, Sheriff Chad Lucas (Murphy), is so determined to recover the money and rescue the singer, he will form a ragtag posse and ride into New Mexico, where he has no authority. There are battles with Apache Indians and horse thieves to be dealt with before catching up with the Drago gang.

Rounding out the cast: Warren Stevens, Denver Pyle, Edgar Buchanan, Royal Dano, Mike Ragan, Nick Dennis and David Macklin. This Universal Pictures western is one hour and 26 minutes in length. Murphy fans will sit through this one twice.

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3/10

Lifted scenes

Dfree5211 November 2010

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What I noticed right off were the railroad scenes transplanted from 1957's NIGHT PASSAGE where Audie Murphy appears as an outlaw (The Utica Kid) and is the younger brother of James Stewart. He wears black, with a black leather jacket. In the beginning of this film, he's dressed the same way...the only difference being a sheriff's badge. All the train scenes were inter cut into this film...nice way to save on cost.

I must admit I quickly lost interest, only watching the first third of this movie, but it looked like it wasn't going to get any better. One of the reasons it may look 50ish in style is because of the borrowed scenes.

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6/10

The chase scenes are worth watcing

Maverick196222 May 2021

My last Audie Murphy western. Yes readers, I've now seen every one that he made as well as a few non-oaters. Needless to say I have a real fondness for the actor, much as I have for Rory Calhoun and Randolph Scott. They were the heroes of my childhood back when they were on top and Gunpoint doesn't entirely disappoint although when it starts it looks like a budget TV western episode. When we get past the inside scenes and into wide open country it improves considerably. There follows a chase by Murphy and a ramshackle posse of villain Morgan Woodward who has stolen a saddlebag of cash from the town and Murphy is determined to catch him come hell or high water or in this case, high mountains. The chase scenes up the mountain are surprisingly well filmed and authentic. Adding to the fun are an able cast, Warren Stevens as a flashy saloon owner, The beautiful Joan Staley as his girlfriend and to add complications, previous love of old Audie, aging bumbling gang leader they come across, Edgar Buchanan and half wit Royal Dano so some familiar faces. Not a great Murphy western but OK and worth watching.

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Mediocre Oater

jmix6623 August 2010

This movie might have been serviceable entertainment had it been released in the early 1950's. However, by the time that this came out in the mid-1960's, the Spaghetti Western was taking hold and the Revisionist Western making is debut.

The overly dramatic acting and score...the anachronistic clothing (Murphy's shirt has buttons along it's entire front as does his female costar's) and general "cleanliness" of the outdoors have been largely removed from Westerns by this point Basically, this movie came out 10-12 years too late.

If you are an Audie Murphy fan, then you'll get what you are expecting.If you are not,I'd suggest that you pass on this one.

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7/10

Goof

bornagain710-331-21263519 May 2019

You don't pound nails into a horse's shoe with a loaded gun!

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6/10

Concussion no bar to heroics!

Marlburian23 May 2021

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I'm not the greatest fan of Audie Murphy fans. VERY ironically given his war record, I find it difficult to envisage him as a tough Westerner. But I quite enjoyed this one, and it was nice to see Denver Pyle get more screen time than usual.

Joan Staley did not over-impress as the saloon girl and, like another reviewer, I did wonder about her change of clothes and footwear after she'd been abducted.

Not too bad a plot, though. But the least unconvincing aspect was Chad being diagnosed with concussion that affected his vision and then leading a posse over very rugged terrain, shooting a baddie or two with his pistol from some distance and successfully fighting a man far bigger than him.

Despite their privations, the posse members still had time to shave. And right at the end its two survivors (no prizes for guessing who they were) still had to get back to civilisation, apparently on foot and with no water.

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6/10

Highly watchable - Highly forgettable

cheekyfilm30 July 2021

Sherriff 'Chad' (Audie Murphy) rounds up a posse and leads them on a hunt for outlaws. A series of problems and complications arise as they navigate the wilds of New Mexico. The plot is pretty standard and the production values are pretty minimum, but it entertains for the 85 minute runtime.

Cheap sets and costumes, along with boring photography (right out of a TV movie from this era), make this thing seem like a non-effort. But Audie and company string you along each story beat, and the 2nd half is better than the first, leading into a satisfying ending.

Mindless stuff, but entertaining enough.

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5/10

Couldn't do it

cartjos10 October 2022

I couldn't get past the opening of this movie. I understand that most Westerns, except Hondo, have their ridiculous parts. Guns being shot out of the hands of the bad guys by someone shooting from the hip is especially annoying. This movie took the Gold however in the first few minutes when a rider on horseback threw knives at the occupants of the locomotive's cab, killing them. At that point I said we are done here. I am almost positive that the knives were shown striking them in the front even though the rider was approaching from the rear. I find that when things start out bad in a movie that they don't usually get better.

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6/10

Sheriff Audie has past catch up in lovely un-stale Staley

adrianovasconcelos24 February 2024

Director Earl Bellamy built a TV career, and it shows: GUNPOINT looks and sounds like a low budget TV flick - which by 1966 was still lower than a film budget - with very poor lighting that reveals electricity- rather than sun-made shadows, among other technical shortcomings. Bellamy is not shy to use archive footage to show a spectacular horse stampede down a mountain.

Although he does not extract memorable performances from the cast, Audie Murphy shows his usual steadiness, hiding the skeletons in his cupboard - he had robbed a bank but the judge gave him a chance - until lovely Joan Staley turns up as the local saloon singer and love interest to saloon owner Warren Stevens, who plays hot and cold throughout, seemingly loyal to Audie one moment and not so the next.

It is always a privilege to watch character actor Edgar Buchanan, pity that he has less than 90 seconds on screen as head of a camp of mean rawhiders who doubt Audie's status as sheriff and posse leader. Denver Pyle is also quite good as the two-faced deputy sheriff who feels so disrespected by Audie that he drops a boulder on him... thankfully, Audie's sharp reflexes have him jump to safety and his trail scout get squashed.

Bellamy and screenwriter Willingham throw everything into the script, even marauding Indians, so it is a relief to see Audie and Staley (nothing stale about her shape!) walk off into the sunset.

Watchable time killer. 6/10.

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2/10

Warning: Remake!

oniowa118 September 2021

This is a total ripoff of Bend In The River! It reuses some of the same scenes and Audey Murphy looks like he rode out of one movie and into another. He didn't even change his clothes or horse. Ripoff!

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8/10

Good movie!

hpringnitz21 March 2022

This is one of the few Audie Murphy movies I hadn't seen before. I thoroughly enjoyed it. That Joan Staley was mighty easy on the eyes. Playmate of the month the month after I was born!

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4/10

Audie Murphy is the GQ Cowboy

FinneganBear1 April 2021

This is one of those low budget, unrealistic Audie Murphy westerns. But there was an audience for them in the 1950s and '60s because he was a likeable commodity as a Medal of Honor war hero in WWII. In a sense, he was a poor man's John Wayne inasmuch as he basically played the same heroic, stoic character in most of his starring films. But his movies and characters were vastly underwhelming compared to Wayne's persona and bigger budget films.

This film plays like a TV western as various episodic scenes have little to do with one another. Rather than building toward something, it just moves on to different adventures.

But throughout, Murphy's character never gets mussed. He and Gene Autry must have shopped at the same store. Murphy's nice cowboy hat always looks clean and crisp and doesn't fall off. His permanent press shirt never gets a wrinkle. And he always looks spiffy in his neckerchief with the perfectly tied end always directly behind him. The most suspenseful scene may be when he's tying a neckerchief around the arm of the slightly wounded Joan Staley. Murphy's fashionable neckwear is not immediately visible and there is fear that he may have had to use it to stop her bleeding at the risk of his own sartorial splendor. But then he turns, revealing he is still perfectly attired so that the audience knows he had bandaged her arm with some other cloth that magically appeared from nowhere. Alas, Murphy's spiffiness remained intact.

When challenged, Audie Murphy had some acting chops. He performed well for John Huston in "The Red Badge of Courage" and again in "The Unforgiven." But his slew of low budget, formula westerns like "Gunpoint" are very low quality.

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2/10

Why Audie, Why?

gkhege18 May 2019

As much as I love and respect fellow Veteran Audie Murphy, I never understood why he accepted roles in some of these " C " Westerns. I know it was in the 1950's and we would go watch anything at the picture show, especially Westerns. I probably loved this movie when I was a kid and should have carried those memories with me.

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4/10

not his best!

davyd-0223721 October 2020

Having never seen this (as one brought up on westerns) I have to say that older age hasnt helped. It starts off well enough knowing that the deputy sheriff is helping the villains but then descents into a farce as the sheriff leads a posse into the desert chasing those who have also robbed the town bank. A sudden appearance of Edgar Buchanan and his two sidekicks reduces everything to an even lower level and the final shoot out is one easily forgotten. Leave this one alone, He did a few vastly superior to this

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