![]() As well as atmospheric and functional cinematography by William Margulies. It contains a thrilling and moving musical score by Hans J. 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. 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. Besides, Audie made some other notorious non-Western films as "The American" and his self-biography : " To hell and back". ![]() 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". 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". Passable but neither notable, not extraordinary, but a run-of-the mill Audie Murphy Western from his worst and final period. ![]() The story of a town with a gun in its back !. The ominous gang is led by a ruthless nasty, Morgan Woodward, and all them are attacked by Apache Indians. Things go wrong when the posse goes into New Mexico, a territory where sheriff Murphy doesn't have jurisdiction. 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. After a violent robbing, a posse is created to pursue the cutthroats.
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