Underplayed Gems

No Name on the Bullet (1959)

No Name on the Bullet poster
Directed by
Jack Arnold
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rated
16
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 88 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A cold-blooded gun-for-hire rides into a small town. The townspeople grow increasingly nervous because his presence usually means someone is going to die.

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What happens

No Name on the Bullet is a 1959 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, and Joan Evans. It is one of a handful of pictures in that genre directed by Arnold, better known for his science-fiction movies of the era. Although it is one of Universal Pictures' modestly budgeted vehicles for World War II hero Audie Murphy, the top-billed actor is unusually cast as the villain, a cold-blooded gun-for-hire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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