A Gunfight (1971) Reviews & Ratings

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A Gunfight reviews

A Gunfight holds a 5.8/10 average from 40 TMDB ratings.

Whoever wins loses. A Gunfight is directed by Lamont Johnson and written by Harold Jack Bloom. It stars Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black and Raf Vallone. Music is by Laurence Rosenthal and cinematography by David Walsh. Will Tenneray (Douglas) and Abe Cross (Cash) are two ageing gunfighters who after meeting each other in town hit it of straight away and actually like and respect each other. Ho…
— John Chard (7/10)

Hmmm, I’m not sure this is really anyone’s finest hour nor does it really pay much of an homage to it’s genre as we see two ageing shootists struggling to make ends meet. “Cross” (Johnny Cash) fancied his chances pan-handling but all he got was backache; “Tenneray” (Kirk Douglas) satisfies his days trading on his reputation whilst poncing drinks from the gullible and the easy impressed. With two such famous gunpokes…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

**_Two aging gunmen meet in a Southwest town_** The quick-draw contest was mostly an invention of dime novelists and moviemakers. Sure, you can cite the Wild Bill Hickok and David Tutt gunfight over a pocket watch in the town square of Springfield Missouri in 1865, a few months after the Civil War ended. Good luck finding any other documented examples. In the Old West, if you wanted to shoot someone, you just did it…
— Wuchak (7/10)

Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.

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