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starring: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyndirected by: Russell Rouse
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792840985
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0792840984
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: May 04, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 20297
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1956
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Rating:  - A Real Ford Gem
Glenn Ford played everything from a school teacher, a preacher, to an Aircraft carrier commander. But the western is where he made his name as far a public popularity! "The Fastest Gun Alive" rates up there with "Heaven With A Gun" and "The Last Challenge." All three of these Glenn Ford westerns are definitely worth the time, but this is not only my favorite of the three, it's my all time favorite of Glenn's classic work. The story grabs your attention from the very outset and just gets better as ... Read More
Rating: - "The Fastest Gun Alive": The Greatest B&W Western of All Time
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, and Broderick Crawford--directed by Russell Rouse--is the greatest B&W Western film ever made.
Why?
Because, across the critical board, it is THE BEST in every significant category: story/plot, acting, directing, editing, cinematography, score, et cetera & so on. Crafted with great skill and purpose, it focuses and sustains an exceptional level of dramatic intensity. It vaults gunslinging onto a significant ... Read More
Rating: - Fastest Gun Alive
I usually don't like westerns, but this one really caught my attention. It doesn't thrive on a lot of difficult sets and action. It's definately a thinker's western. Here you have a fighter who doesn't want to fight, a town with a secret and promise that they'll have a hard time to keep from breaking to save itself. Very suspenseful and very well done.
Rating: - Ford's Best Western
Glenn Ford was one of our alltime great Western movie actors. In his heyday, he was great at combining fragile humanity with raw strength and brute force.
In The Fastest Gun Alive, Ford plays a reformed gunfighter who is desperately trying to live down his reputation in a small town, living a very quiet, peaceful existence. But events unfold that reveal his identity, and soon Broderick Crawford, a fast-draw outlaw, coems to town to match skills with Ford.
Everyone is excellent in ... Read More
Rating:  - The Gunfighter as Human
The image of the western gunfighter has been indelibly etched by the likes of John Wayne in the forties and Clint Eastwood in the sixties as a supremely confident and capable shootist. It is rare for Hollywood to buck this trend but in THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE director Robert Rouse peels away the layers that all too often separate celluloid fiction from brute fact. Glen Ford is George Temple, a one time fast draw expert who has spent years trying to live down a wall of self-imposed isolation that he feels would ... Read More
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