The drifter, who calls himself George Briggs, is a dissolute, selfish, but redoubtable old gunfighter, whereas Cuddy is scrupulously neat and pious, with an undercurrent of yearning vulnerability.
On July 21 , 1865 in a shootout in Springfield, Missouri, he killed David Tutt, a skillful gunfighter who had been flaunting the watch he won from Hickok in a poker game.
So too it depicted and debunked a parade of Hollywood western movie conventions, including captivity narratives, gunfighter myths, and medicine shows, as well as the often-told tale of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
He soon teamed with Hope on Son of Paleface (1952), in which Hope played the Harvard University-educated son of a gunfighter who heads west expecting to collect a fortune left to him by his father.
The legendary gunfighter Billy the Kid and his lawman-nemesis Pat Garrett were party to this struggle in Lincoln county, the epicentre of the local range war in its bloodiest year, 1878.
In the process the sheriff learns how also to accept help himself from a sultry dance-hall girl (Angie Dickinson), a cocky gunfighter (Rick Nelson), and a cantankerous deputy (Walter Brennan).
In a western setting saturated with sex, violence, and religious symbolism, the gunfighter El Topo (Jodorowsky) crosses the desert with his naked son (played by Jodorowsky's son Brontis) but leaves him behind to go on a quest to kill the four master gunfighters.
He has the authority of a gunfighter determined not to linger about his work.
His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life.
The film begins in Fort Griffin, Texas, where lawman Wyatt Earp (played by Burt Lancaster) first encounters Doc Holliday Kirk Douglass), a gambler and gunfighter.
Henry Holliday is best known as the father of Dr. John Holliday, the famous Western gunfighter usually called Doc.
