![]() ![]() 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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