Watch: The Quiet Gun 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – Hired gun Doug Sadler rides into a small Western town and immediately provokes the local sheriff, Carl Brandon, by tormenting a simpleminded local named Sampson. Brandon is further provoked by a visit from city attorney Hardy, who announces that the town council is charging local rancher Ralph Carpenter with violations of morality for living with an Indian girl. Brandon, who is in love with Carpenter’s estranged wife Teresa, realizes that there is something sinister behind both these events, but he is unsuccessful in preventing calamity from erupting. Eventually he must stand against his entire town in order to protect it and the law he represents..
Plot: A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
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Grim but watchable
“The Quiet Gun” is surprisingly harsh in its depiction of the average folk of an average western town. Average — in this case — translates to racist, violent and none-to-bright. Sheriff Carl Brandon has to stand up to assorted black hats (including the ubiquitous Lee Van Cleef) as well as the dunder-headed locals. Forrest Tucker is good as Brandon and Hank Worden adds his usual stumbling, bumbling hijinks as Samson, the town moron with a heart of gold. A lot of westerns would have let the townsfolk redeem themselves heroically at the end, but this movie sticks to its guns. In the final scene Brandon stands alone to face the villains. “The Quiet Gun” is a nasty little tale with the courage of its convictions.
Enough Plot Twists and Good Performances to make it Good
Twentieth Century Fox created a subsidiary in the mid 1950s to release films it deemed not good to enough to release under its banner. Regal Pictures, like Fox, released most of its films in wide screen, using “Regalscope,” which appears technically indistinguishable from Cinemascope. Ironically, most of Regal’s output was as good or better than the B movies from Fox. “The Quiet Gun” is no exception, with fine performances from Forrest Tucker and Jim Davis and some surprising plot twists which lift this movie from the humdrum. Tucker plays a sheriff who must reluctantly pursue his friend (Davis), after Davis kills a busybody “district attorney” in self defense. Mara Corday and Kathleen Crowley provide the eye candy and Hand Worden plays the comic relief in a role similar to that of Walter Brennan in “Rio Bravo”.ENCORE’s WESTERN CHANNEL shows the movie in full screen, which is a shame. Several effective scenes are undercut by the aspect ratio conversion. Still, “The Quiet Gun” is worth watching, if only to see Lee Van Cleef with a full set of hair. I rate it a “6”.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 17 min (77 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Western
Director William F. Claxton
Writer Lauran Paine, Eric Norden, Earle Lyon
Actors Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis
Country United States
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Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Regalscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm