With the Union victory, he fears he's a wanted man and heads out West, closely followed by his long-time flame Josie Sullivan (Claire Trevor). Randolph Scott probably was in more westerns than any other Hollywood star and some of those films were purportedly pretty good. Jeff shoots Slager and escapes as the burning ceiling collapses on Mourret. hostage thriller that boasts some fine performances by Sterling Hayden and While waiting to rob the stage, Jules and his gang encounter Degas and his gang. [1] Based on the short story "Yankee Gold" by John W. Cunningham, the film is about a war criminal wanted for the slaughter of women and children who moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery but reconsiders and decides to change his life. Stranger Wore A Gun, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) William Clarke Quantrill, Stranger Wore a Gun, The - (Original Trailer), Stranger Wore A Gun, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Ride A Careless Horse, Stranger Wore A Gun, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Thieves, Cutthroats And Murderers, Jul Meanwhile, Jeff explains his entire past to the Conroys and, warned by Josie, evades Mourret and the vigilante group. 1 Hour 22 Minutes. Guardian of the Wilderness aka Mountain Man (Sunn Classic Pictures, 1976), Shoot Out at Big Sag (TV pilot, Brennan Productions, 1962). There are quite a few surprises in this film. relegated to directing for television: Maverick, 77 Sunset That he can't shake his past even in an out of the way western hamlet becomes obvious when both Josie and Jules Mourret (George Macready), another ghost from yesterday, turn up there. Ride like the wind again., Yeah? Borgnine replied incredulously. degree from the University of Budapest, he began acting, writing and working The stranger begins falling in love with her to the displeasure of Josie. Green. brian2156. In his excellent book The Films of Randolph Scott (McFarland, 2004) Robert Nott tells a couple of good stories about the making of this movie, such as a description by Lee Marvin of a burning stage hurtling by Randy, who ignored it, calming sitting reading The Wall Street Journal. Jeff agrees, assuming the identity of Mark Stone, an insurance detective requested by the Conroys, and informs them he will masquerade as a stage guard to protect the gold. It was a good combination. He decides to settle in Prescott, Arizona, where he takes a job driving for the Conroy Stage Company. Adapted for the screen by Danny Brocklehurst, it follows the story of a man whose world is decimated after a secret about his marriage is brought to light by a complete stranger. Mourret is unsuccessful trying to steal the money and gold transported by the company but is frequently lured by Jason Conroy (Pierre Watkin); he intends to use Travis to get inside information about the transportation of gold. Some of the scenes have been filmed at the disused Moor Lane Bus Station in Bolton town centre. Randolph Scott is caught between good and evil in this action-packed oater, Ex-Confederate spy formerly aligned with terrorist guerilla leader turns good guy in disappointing western. The Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill was all the rage at the time, having appeared in several movies, such as Kansas Raiders in 1950 or Woman They Almost Lynched the same year as The Stranger Wore a Gun, in both pictures played by Brian Donlevy, as well as on the page in Frank Grubers Quantrells Raiders (Quantrell was a frequent alternative spelling), also in 53. | GREATER THAN EVER IN 3-D! After the stage driver Jim is gunned down in a stage robbery, Jeff turns honest again and vows to avenge Jim. by Michael T. Toole, - He enlists in the Confederate Army as a legitimate soldier. Jeff Travis, serving as an advance . Its in nice color and acceptably photographed by Lester White, who did quite a lot of second-feature movies and TV Westerns (especially Rin Tin Tin and The Roy Rogers Show) over the years but nothing really special. The story starts in the Civil War when Jeff Travis (Randy) is a spy for Quantrill in Lawrence. By using this site, you agree to our updated, The narrated opening, James Millican as the notorious semi-Confederate raider William Clarke Quantrill, we meet top-billed Randolph Scott as his not-overly conscientious spy Jeff Travis, and director Andre De Toth provides action for the original 3-D production, in, Seeking refuge in Prescott, Arizona, after facilitating a massacre with Quantrills Raiders in Kansas, Travis (Randolph Scott) meets goons (including Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine in his first movie!) as a cameraman for cinematographer Istvan Eiben. It will be very easy to find any others from this era. That's Anna Magnani territory. The rocks themselves are studded with bolts and adhesions of cement left over from early productions, which date back at least to "Gunga Din." Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. Borgnine mounted a horse and with a slew of other riders, did a scene in which they had to come riding down a hill fast. Verified purchase: Currently you are able to watch "The Stranger Wore a Gun" streaming on Tubi TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, DIRECTV, Vudu. Screenplay: Kenneth Gamet Neither of them knew much about stories. Manchester has also served as the filming location of another Netflix series based on Cobens book starring Michael C. Hall, Safe. But he had a tremendous inferiority complex about his acting ability, and that made him stiffhe was Randy Scott. An ex-Confederate spy for the Quantrill's Raiders, torched and looted mercilessly for the "Confederate cause" during the Civil War. Lee, on the other hand didn't need any "camera" tricks to make him look fast. The original music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, though, is pretty corny and old-fashioned a lot of the time, especially during the horse chases, which also remind you of old 1930s programmers. To muddy the water a damsel in distress appears, pretty Shelby Conroy (Joan Weldon), who seems shy and innocent. He directed a few films abroad, the best Jeff then runs into Kurth and kills him. CA Privacy Rights When that stage is attacked and the driver, Shelby's uncle Jake, is tortured and killed in an attempt to find the gold, Jeff guiltily reconsiders his association with Mourret. The other 3-D film he directed was "House of Wax.". Paul Maxey (the corpulent sheriff from The Road to Denver) is the very fat saloon keeper, which is good. It was directed by Andr de Toth, too. [2] The supporting cast includes Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. This situation, however, isn't as interesting as the rest of the film, since lovers in Westerns seldom fling items at the camera while coping with spurned affections. George Macready, who belongs in things like "Gilda" rather than oaters like this, kept getting shoved into Randolph Scott Westerns (four of them). Randolph Scott plays the morally gray lead with Ernest Borgnine and a fully dark haired Lee Marvey as key heavies for George MacReady's outlaw kingpin, who wants to recruit Scott into his enterprise. Perhaps the part was supposed to be comic but if so, it fails. Not terribly original. I know it's just a movie but the fire at the end looks so dangerous. This tense, sensitive drama about a Nazi officer made to The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Trivia Showing all 3 items Although the film was another 3-D film by director Andre De Toth, he only had one eye and would never be able to see the result of the process. Some weeks later, Jeff arrives in Prescott, Arizona as a gang of thieves, headed by sophisticate Jules Mourret, makes an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a Conroy Stage Line coach, run by Jason Conroy and his daughter Shelby. examine his actions was fascinating in its structure: Set after the war's A badman (Randolph Scott) reforms, then tries to disrupt rival outlaws. (Alexander Knox), in Poland and makes excellent use of flashbacks illustrating For claire trevor 31/31 26_152-0=26_152 {3SRN_1SRW}, ernest borgnine* 35/35 32_184-0=32_184 {1LRN_1LRW}. 80 minute western with a stacked cast and directed by Andre De Toth. small town and matching wits with one of its citizens (Robert Ryan). The one-eyed de Toth was an odd choice to helm a 3-D 2023 Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc. 2019Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc. Sony Pictures Clips & Still Image Licensing. | haunting character study of a killer (Gregory Peck) trying to live down his A spy used in the infamous Quantrill raid on Lawrence, Kansas (Randolph Scott), flees to Prescott, Arizona, after the war and gets mixed up with a shady gang of stagecoach robbers (led by George Macready). (In 1935 with George Raft and 1942 with Alan Ladd. Directors Andre De Toth Starring Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon Genres Western, Military and War Subtitles English [CC] It stars Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Pierre Watkin. The working titles of the film were I Ride Alone and Yankee Gold. What is the French language plot outline for The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)? The Stranger Wore a Gun is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to screenplay by Kenneth Gamet from the story Yankee Gold written by John W. Cunningham. And if you go for art, you run the risk of making junk. It is also possible to rent "The Stranger Wore a Gun" on Amazon Video, Vudu, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, YouTube, DIRECTV online . from 1910 to 1913. The Stranger Wore a Gun 1953Hoping to remove a black mark against his name, Jeff Travis (Scott) goes to Arizona and ends up foiling a stagecoach robbery. Quantrill and his men were little more than terrorists, and it takes a while for this reality to dawn on Travis. Sold by: The change in structure not only makes the story more compact but also limits the impact of it by a stretch. That night Jeff and Dan face off ready to draw but Jeff is faster. Jeff Travis: A man's only as good as his cards. After tying up Jeff, Kurth departs to get Mourret, and Jeff convinces Slager he will split the gold with him. Horrendous dialogue, terrible editing (the big gunfight in the mountains is unintelligible until the principals gather to rehash what just happened), and some really bad acting (not so much from Scott, Borgnine, or Marvin, but pretty much everybody else. They were mixed: some, like Riding Shotgun (1954), were superb, whereas others, like The Stranger Wore a Gun, were average. In reality the stranger with gun savvy is working with a strong willed loyalist(George Macready) to the Confederation trying to discover where scads of gold is being hid. Producer: Harry Joe Brown Born in Mako, Hungary to the son of a civil engineer, De Toth showed an Randy rides his fancy palomino Stardust and on one occasion shoots Lee Marvins hat off. People who don't remember the 3-D craze will probably think the director was weird. Shelby: Joan Weldon. "I believe Randolph Scott could have gone further as a performer," De Toth said. Didnt they know that they should have had seven each? "He made a lot of films and drank a lot, even for those times. The Stranger Wore a Gun is a Scott-Brown production for Columbia and a priori a cut above some of the Westerns Randolph Scott did. He has clearly just learned his lines and says them with an inane grin on his face. An ok western with a pretty good cast that's a little wasted (not in a Cheech N Chong way). One-eyed director Andre De Toth had already tried the process with House . Gene Nelson and excellent location shooting on the streets of Los Angeles; When Travis arrives in Prescott, power lines are visible in the background. Lee Marvin, as he was dying from having been shot by this amazingly slow lawman (Randolph Scott), looked down at his two hands, as if to say, "Hands -- how could you have failed me". Impressed with his ability, Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, put the Soon after, Jeff arrives at the saloon to challenge Mourret and Slager. Books and TV are a different poison. Jeff remains missing through the night, and the next day Mourret grows anxious upon discovering the townspeople have lost interest in Jeff's capture. He did a lot of hard-boiled crime pictures and did not scruple to show violent scenes. age 14 and seeing his first play produced at age 18. (1944-1952) with whom he had two children. Portraits From the Inside, as well as an interview book, De Toth on De Toth, The Stranger Wore A Gun (203) 5.9 1 h 22 min 1953 13+ A man whose life is saved by a bandit reluctantly joins in a conspiracy to loot the stage lines - and things get hairy when he decides to go straight. Perhaps if he had made a better film, Randy might have stepped up. Western. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. the prosecution's testimony to form the bulk of the film. They've been making movies up there for years. There is something about the plot of The Stranger Wore a Gun which vaguely prefigures Yojimbo and its spaghetti reincarnations, as Randy plays two gangs off, one against the other. Ernest overacts with gusto, as usual. The film is watchable every Randolph Scott Western was but, to be brutally frank, a shade weak. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Jeff Arnold 2023 All rights reserved Designed by. Entertaining. Both watch and plot as Joan Weldon and her father, ship gold via the stagecoach line. Both watch and plot as Joan Weldon and her father, ship gold via the stagecoach line. They were both gentlemen, nice people." He knew Travis from before and now full expects his help in stealing gold shipments from the stage line. Starring Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon. Required fields are marked *. Condition: Producer Harry Joe Brown made multiple story eliminations in order to gain PCA script approval. Mourret has a rival, the Mexican bandit Degas, played quite extraordinarily badly by Alfonso Bedoya. Jeff returns the gold to the Conroys, then in his hotel room confesses to Josie his distress about Jake's brutal murder and his life as an outlaw. 'Seven Men from Now'). He is survived by his wife, Ann After Shelby tells Jeff that she and her father are reluctantly closing down the line to prevent more killings, he convinces them to keep the line going a little longer. Armitages character is not the only one who receives a shocking revelation from a person they know nothing about. When Slager loosens the ropes, Jeff breaks free and escapes. )Those films were based on Dashiell Hammett's novel of 1931. His gang too comprises six men. On one trip, some men confront Jeff about his past connection with Quantrill, and with the help of a stranger, Jeff escapes. (1948) which he co-wrote. Tired of the limitations he was finding It's hard to tell if he's a bad guy or a good guy sometimes, as he manipulates two different gangs of unsavory characters. film as he could not experience the stereoscopic process, having lost an eye Amazon.com: The Stranger Wore a Gun [VHS] : Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Pierre Watkin . Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are on hand as heavies. With his past fast catching up to him, Travis must make a stand for his future - a future for which he's prepared to fight! Marvin is about the best actor after Randy. But The Stranger Wore a Gun is not one of them. Randolph Scott had been a "Semi-hero" of mine in the late thirties and the forties. He rides to Prescott, Arizona to start a new life again. In the show, however, the approach has been changed. Conroy avoided being robbed by hiding the gold in a different location for each trip, never revealing the hiding place to the driver. After leaving Quantrill, Travis takes up with a group of outlaws who are hoping to gain control of post-war Prescott, Arizona. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. Later that day Jeff and Josie board the stage for California to begin a new life again. According to information in the file on the film in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, the script was originally rejected because of its "shocking violence(and) acts of vicious brutality and gruesomeness." I mean, come on, he's has to tangle with both Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. Although De Toth shows his usual flair for physical actionriding, shooting, and fist-fighting, Gamet's script comes up lame because he gives the good guy charactersthe father & daughter who run a stagecoach/freighting outfitthe short shrift. For more information on Quantrill's Raiders, see the entry for the 1940 Republic film Dark Command in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40. Josie hesitantly admits that to keep Jeff dependent upon her, she lied to him about his being wanted for his association with Quantrill. This means that the characters are closer to each other than they appear, which is why the setting of the show becomes even more important. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. The Stranger Wore a Gun is a Scott-Brown production for Columbia and a priori a cut above some of the Westerns Randolph Scott did. The Stranger Wore a Gun is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to screenplay by Kenneth Gamet from the story Yankee Gold written by John W. Cunningham. Raymond Burr, this story of a bored insurance salesman who embarks on an