I don't buy Gregory Peck's performance as the veteran gunslinger and bank robber Jimmy Ringo who rides into town looking to rekindle his relationship with his school teacher wife Peggy Walsh (Helen Westcott) and his ten (10) year old son Jimmie (B.G. Norman). The film depicts Peck as a gunslinger willing to hang up his six guns for a pitch fork and a few cows and escape the lonely gunslinger reputation he has carried for decades whilst riding from town to town with a "MOST WANTED" sign posted everywhere.
After watching the film I just could not convince myself, nor could Gregory Peck convince me that he was this ornery gunslinger and bank robber. His last stop leads him to his long lost wife Peggy and son Jimmie who doesn't even know that Jimmy Ringo is his father. The only friend in the world that Jimmy Ringo seems to have is the local Marshal Mark Strett (played superbly by veteran actor Millard Mitchell) who used to rob banks with Jimmy back in their hey days but even their relationship has an egg timer going before their friendship will expire.
The director Henry King was attempting to emphasize that Jimmy Ringo was a "WANTED" man and anyone who was brave and/or stupid enough to challenge Jimmy Ringo to a draw and beat him, would automatically become famous as the man who killed the gunslinger bad guy Jimmy Ringo. But even that strategy didn't seem to come across as real but more like a previously rehearsed stage play. I am sure the limited box office draw this film realized assisted future film producers that actor Gregory Peck was not to be considered for too many western cowboy movies.
None the less it is a western genre film and it is an okay time waster but nothing memorable. I give it a 6 out of 10 IMDB rating.
After watching the film I just could not convince myself, nor could Gregory Peck convince me that he was this ornery gunslinger and bank robber. His last stop leads him to his long lost wife Peggy and son Jimmie who doesn't even know that Jimmy Ringo is his father. The only friend in the world that Jimmy Ringo seems to have is the local Marshal Mark Strett (played superbly by veteran actor Millard Mitchell) who used to rob banks with Jimmy back in their hey days but even their relationship has an egg timer going before their friendship will expire.
The director Henry King was attempting to emphasize that Jimmy Ringo was a "WANTED" man and anyone who was brave and/or stupid enough to challenge Jimmy Ringo to a draw and beat him, would automatically become famous as the man who killed the gunslinger bad guy Jimmy Ringo. But even that strategy didn't seem to come across as real but more like a previously rehearsed stage play. I am sure the limited box office draw this film realized assisted future film producers that actor Gregory Peck was not to be considered for too many western cowboy movies.
None the less it is a western genre film and it is an okay time waster but nothing memorable. I give it a 6 out of 10 IMDB rating.