Maybe it's having had to endure four years of Mr. I Alone Can Fix It in power but I find these Stranger Comes To Town And Solves All Problems pics highly resistible (unless, of course, there is an interesting twist like, say, Spencer Tracy's karate skills in "Bad Day" and of which there is not a whiff here). Throw in a way too talky screenplay, especially burdensome in the love scenes between Mitchum and Sterling and, as other reviewers have noted, desultory direction, particularly of action scenes, and you have a profoundly ordinary western that does not even rise to the level of a decent "Rifleman" episode. Solid C. PS...Even in a minor, uncredited role and as a brunette, no less, Angie Dickinson's hotness comes through.
Review of Man with the Gun
