Very polished,as one might expect from such an experienced director as Mr F.Waggner,who,along with cinemaphotographer Mr F.Jackman jr had a long career in films and tv - always relied upon to bring his stuff home on time and professionally produced.
There are some elegantly posed interiors that would not disgrace Ford here.
Not unlike "The Big sleep" this is a story of a father and his two daughters and the Philip Marlowe figure who becomes involved in their lives.
Enter the straightforward,honest gunfighter Brazos Kane (Mr R.Scott) wrongly accused of murder his partner and railroaded by The girls' father and a crooked sherriff who scarcely escapes a lynching before setting out on a revenge mission.
One sister is good and the other not quite so good and frankly they run rings round the bemused Brazos.
Appearances by Mr B.Cabot,Mr F.Tucker and other familiar Western characters
add a pleasing sense of deja vu as Mr Scott unravels the mystery of his partner's death.
Films like "Gunfighters" filled our screens in the years immediately after the second world war as the British movie industry struggled to re - invent itself,
and supplied a much - needed reassurance that good would triumph over evil
to a nation that had endured a very close - run thing for six years.
Mr Scott represented the old values of decency and courage that had threatened
to be overcome and we loved him for it.
Right up until "Ride the High Country" in 1962 his righteous bloody - mindedness
represented the best of the American Spirit for us Limeys who were grateful to his countrymen for saving our arses in two world wars..
Review of Gunfighters
