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Very disappointing...

Just perfect...

Fantastic!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

What A WONDERFUL Movie ... Gregory Peck Is Excellent As Jimmy Ringo, Desperate To Find A Place Where He Can Live In Peace ... But Much Like Michael Corleone In Godfather 3, There Comes A Point Of No Return, A Point Where Reforming/Changing Is Too Little Too Late ... The Movie Has A Powerful "Film-Noir" Quality That I Have Never Seen In A Western ... A Bit Of A Thriller The Story Is Powerful, Well Paced And The Acting Is Displayed With A Reality That Empowers The Movie ... An Excellent Cast Including Karl Malden As The Bartender Who Is Old Friends With Jimmy ... A Must See Regardless Of What Genre You May Enjoy ...

The basic message that being a celebrity gunfighter makes you the target of every young gunfighter who wants to make a name for themself, and the object of bothersome curiosity seekers is stated several times in the early going then, in case your short term memory is deficient, stated again as Gregory Peck(Jimmy Ringo)lays dying. I couldn't wait for the film to end, it was so boring, with minimal gunplay or humor. Mostly, Peck waited around in the saloon for his estranged wife to show up to talk to and to see his boy. I will say the climax wasn't what I expected. Helen Westcott played Ringo's schoolteacher wife: not a very pleasant woman from what I could tell... The name Jimmy Ringo is derived from the real life gunslinger Johnny Ringo: an enemy of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone.See it, if you dare, on You Tube or DVD. For me, the much less celebrated "Shoot Out", also starring Peck, was a much more worthwhile experience.

This here is just a great Western. We're given a hard-hitting start, the acting is top notch throughout, we're given strong plot that is well carried out by a host of various characters each with their own motivation and contribution to the story, good morals, and enough action coupled with dialog all in a poignant atmosphere... just really top notch Western stuff.Gregory Peck does surprisingly well as the tough guy protagonist although a young buck.The love story doesn't overflood the film and yet it is absolutely central.8/10.

The gunman in western movies is often a glamorous figure. (Who can forget tall, handsome, gallant Henry Fonda in "Warlock"?) We find him fascinating even though we know he is at best outside the law and at worst a murderer.In "The Gunfighter," a terrific movie, Gregory Peck's Jimmy Ringo has some of the mystique of the gunman, but mostly what we see is his weariness of the life he has led and his fear that he is doomed to be hunted down and shot by some upstart gunman, pretty much like the Jimmy Ringo of 15 or 20 years before. Ringo at age 35 or so is now something of a gentleman in his relations with others, and we learn that he lives by a code--never drawing on an unarmed man, for example. But there is no attempt to whitewash his past. For all we know, his career has been one of unredeemed criminality.What captures our sympathy for Jimmy Ringo and holds us in suspense as to his outcome is not the glamor of the gunfighter but the vulnerability of a tired man desperate to elude his fate. He has convinced himself that he can start a new life with the woman he has always loved but abandoned eight years ago, along with their young son.The entire story covers a span of only a few hours. Pursued by three men who seek to kill him, Jimmy Ringo has arrived in an obscure town with precious little time in which to make his appeal to the woman and her boy. It is clear that his idea of reuniting with her and taking her and the boy away to a place where no one has heard of him is a fantasy. In the end, he dies the way he has lived--by gunfire."The Gunfighter" is a well-written, tightly constructed, tragic story filmed in stark black and white. It's a reminder of how much we have lost with the passing of the western genre.