Red Sundown

6/3/2014

Fighting fire with fire - gunslinger with gunslinger. Red Sundown is directed by Jack Arnold and written by Martin Berkeley. It stars Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, James Millican, Lita Baron and Grant Williams. Music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by William Snyder. Gunslinger Alec Longmire (Calhoun) decides to honour a promise and change his ways. Arriving in Durango he quickly gets the opportunity to put his skills to good use when he becomes deputy to Sheriff Jade Murphy (Jagger), the latter of which is struggling to control the despotic behaviour of cattle baron Rufus Henshaw (Middleton). A promise made. A new life… From the higher end of 1950s Western programmers, Red Sundown couples the action and character staples with smart writin

7/2/2026

After a little bit of quid-pro-quo life saving, "Longmire" (Rory Calhoun) decides it's time to hang up his guns and settle down to a more peaceable way of life. He ambles into town seeking a job, but finds the only one going is working for the decent sheriff "Murphy" (Dean Jagger) who is embroiled in a tense conflict between "Henshaw" (Robert Middleton) and some local farmers whom he'd prefer to swat away like flies. This man is a sophisticated gent, though, and so the sheriff is having to tread carefully - a skill which his now new deputy "Longmire" has yet to acquire. Moreover, when he meets "Caroline" (Martha Hyer) who just happens to be his boss's daughter, things become just a little bit more personal for him too. Now certainly there is very little new here by way of the plot nor real