Dialogue de feu
1971 • 89 min • Western · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 10- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 58%
- 59 Audience · 40 · 42%
Deux pistoleros vieillissants et respectés, en proie à des difficultés, acceptent un duel public à mort dans une arène de corrida pour le prix. Ce drame western explore les thèmes de l'héritage, de l'honneur et de la mortalité.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Un duel à mort est au centre de l'intrigue
- Quelques scènes de boisson et de tabac
- Thèmes du vieillissement et du désespoir financier
What it models well
- Honneur et réputation
- Conséquences des choix
- Faire face à la mortalité
Talk about it after
- Qu'est-ce qui rend un homme honorable ?
- La violence est-elle toujours une solution ?
- La valeur d'une vie humaine versus l'argent
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Top billed cast
Director: Lamont Johnson • Crew: Harold Jack Bloom
Trailers & clips
A Gunfight (1971) Trailer
Reviewer notes
Recommended**_Two aging gunmen meet in a Southwest town_** The quick-draw contest was mostly an invention of dime novelists and moviemakers. Sure, you can cite the Wild Bill Hickok and David Tutt gunfight over a pocket watch in the town square of Springfield Missouri in 1865, a few months after the Civil War ended. Good luck finding any other documented examples. In the Old West, if you wanted to shoot someone, you just did it.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersHmmm, I’m not sure this is really anyone’s finest hour nor does it really pay much of an homage to it’s genre as we see two ageing shootists struggling to make ends meet. “Cross” (Johnny Cash) fancied his chances pan-handling but all he got was backache; “Tenneray” (Kirk Douglas) satisfies his days trading on his reputation whilst poncing drinks from the gullible and the easy impressed.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersWhoever wins loses. A Gunfight is directed by Lamont Johnson and written by Harold Jack Bloom. It stars Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black and Raf Vallone. Music is by Laurence Rosenthal and cinematography by David Walsh. Will Tenneray (Douglas) and Abe Cross (Cash) are two ageing gunfighters who after meeting each other in town hit it of straight away and actually like and respect each other.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 5.8/10 (40)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0067168
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