Town Tamer (1965)A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Director:Lesley Selander |
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Town Tamer (1965)A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Director:Lesley Selander |
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| Dana Andrews | ... |
Tom Rosser
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| Terry Moore | ... |
Susan Tavenner
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| Pat O'Brien | ... |
Judge Murcott
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| Lon Chaney Jr. | ... |
Charlie Leach
(as Lon Chaney)
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| Bruce Cabot | ... |
Riley Condor
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| Lyle Bettger | ... |
Lee Ring
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| Richard Arlen | ... |
Doctor Kent
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| Barton MacLane | ... |
James Fell
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| Richard Jaeckel | ... |
Johnny Honsinger
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| Philip Carey | ... |
Jim Akins
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| Sonny Tufts | ... |
Carmichael
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| Coleen Gray | ... |
Carol Rosser
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| DeForest Kelley | ... |
Guy Tavenner
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Jeanne Cagney | ... |
Mary Donley
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| Don 'Red' Barry | ... |
Tex
(as Donald Barry)
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The life of Tom Rosser, a town-taming gunman-for-hire, takes a turn when a bullet meant for him, from the gun of a renegade, Lee Ring, kill's Rosser's wife, Carol, instead. Ring, had been sent by the ruthless Kansas gang-leader, Riley Condor, to kill Rosser. The latter goes to White Plains, supposedly to look over property to but his agenda is to kill Condor. Word gets around that Rosser is in town and Condor realizes that his gunslinging henchmen, Horsinger, Tavenner, Slim Akins, Flon and Ring, are no match for Rosser, and he sets in motion a plan that will use the law to eliminate Rosser. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Oh, I love this movie. For all the wrong reasons. It's a creaking, crawling mess of clichés, enlivened by a geriatric cast. Town Tamer is surprisingly bloody (without the actual blood, of course). It all looks like a mid-sixties (and I mean that in more than one way) TV western with Dana Andrews and crew appearing to be dying from dyspepsia.
And yet, you might pick up on the ease in which all these many veteran actors and actresses fall--or totter--into their respective parts. I guess I have a weakness for movies that beg the MST3000 treatment.
If you ever get to see it, I'd suggest cutting out a silhouette of the guy and the two robots and taping them to the bottom of your TV screen.
C'mon, it'll be fun.
Town Tamer can only get better.