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With: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Pierre Watkin, Joseph Vitale, Clem Bevans
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Written by: Kenneth Gamet, based on a story by John W. Cunningham
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Directed by: André De Toth
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Running Time: 83
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Date: 30/07/1953
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The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
Gold Standard
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy The Stranger Wore a Gun on DVD. André De Toth directed this 3D Western the same year as his hit classic House of Wax, though this new DVD collapses it back into 2D. It was the third of his six films with Randolph Scott. Scott plays Jeff Travis, a former Civil War spy who moves to a small Arizona town and becomes involved in a gold robbery. A typically complex De Toth hero, Travis becomes confused as to what's right and wrong, and begins playing several ends against the middle. The plot is a little convoluted, but Scott is an engaging hero, even when he's playing a bastard. The lovely Claire Trevor co-stars as Scott's true love and his moral compass. Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine play a pair of cackling villains, an act they would play again two years later in the great Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). DVD Details: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released this film on DVD, but with no 3D accoutrements. The now two-dimensional film sometimes looks silly with cowboys punching out the camera or sticking a flaming torch into the audience. The DVD box claims that the film is in black and white, but it's really in color and the transfer is only so-so. Because of digital re-mastering, the 3D effects now look particularly fuzzy. The only extras are optional English and Japanese subtitles and previews of other Sony Westerns.
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