A Gunfight
In Bajo Rio, they pay to see a man kill a bull. Today, they'll pay to see a man kill another man.
1971 • 89 min • Western · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 10- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 58%
- 59 Audience · 40 · 42%
Wapiganaji wawili wazoefu na wenye heshima, wakiwa wamepoteza bahati, wanakubali kupigana hadharani hadi kufa katika uwanja wa ng'ombe kwa ajili ya pesa za zawadi. Tamthilia hii ya Western inachunguza mada za urithi, heshima, na uhai.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Pambano la kufa na kupona ndilo kiini cha hadithi
- Kuna unywaji pombe na uvutaji sigara kidogo
- Mada za uzee na kukosa pesa
What it models well
- Heshima na sifa
- Matokeo ya maamuzi
- Kukabiliana na kifo
Talk about it after
- Nini kinamfanya mwanamume kuwa mwaminifu?
- Je, vurugu inaweza kuwa suluhisho kamwe?
- Thamani ya maisha ya binadamu dhidi ya pesa
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Top billed cast
Director: Lamont Johnson • Crew: Harold Jack Bloom
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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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