Gunman's Walk

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Gunman's Walk

(1958)

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Overview

Tab Hunter plays Ed Hackett, the son of gunslinger-turned-land baron Lee Hackett (Van Heflin) in this wide-screen western.

Featured Crew

Ric Hardman

Story
Frank S. Nugent

Screenplay
Phil Karlson

Director

Top Billed Cast

Van Heflin

Lee Hackett
Tab Hunter

Ed Hackett
Kathryn Grant

Cecily "Clee" Chouard
James Darren

Davy Hackett
Mickey Shaughnessy

Deputy Sheriff Will Motely

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Featured Review

A review by John Chard

7.0

Written by John Chard on February 20, 2017

I'm A Runaway.

Rancher and old school Westerner Lee Hackett is determined to mould his two sons in his own tough gun-fighting image. Something that backfires when his eldest boy, Ed, becomes a murderer.

Gunman's Walk on plot synopsis and summaries sounds like your standard B Western fare, and certainly the theme of parental influence is nothing new. But Phil Karlson's film, adapted from Ric Hardman's story, has many things going for it to keep it from being mundane and used solely as a time filler. It fuses together multiple issues, parenting, prejudice and ignorance during a time of chan... read the rest.

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