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A good example of the brooding, psychological Westerns of the 1950s, The Gunfighter stars Peck as the aging gunflighter Jimmie Ringo, who causes more than a few dust-ups when he arrives in town to visit an old girlfriend.
This article appears in August 1 • 2003.
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