Friday, March 05, 2010

No Name on the Bullet (DVD)

No Name on the Bullet (1959) starring Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans. Gunman John Gant (Murphy) rides into a small town to kill someone, but only he knows who his target is. Murphy, who went from war hero to actor after World War II, here gives a fine performance as the gentlemanly gunslinger. With a minimum of words and no actions to speak of, Gant by his mere presence has the men of the town at each others' throats. The movie seems more akin to an episode of "Gunsmoke" than to a major motion picture, but it's entertaining enough. It's captioned for the hearing-impaired, and the subtitles are unobtrusive. Grade: B

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