Sentence examples for gunfighter's from inspiring English sources

Shane, used to the gunfighter's violent life, is entranced by the gentle domestic scene.

He has his gunfighter's clothes on again, his six-shooters strapped on his waist.

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Standing on the raised wooden sidewalk outside the saloon, looking down at the diminutive Torrey slogging through the mud, Wilson belittles him with a hissing voice, casually puts on his gunfighter's gloves and outdraws Torrey.

Most of all, as those birdies hit home like a gunfighter's bullets, they loved the mad-eyed glare from a man whose record this weekend reads played four, won four.

The astonishing speed with which violence emerges and leaves bodies behind arises from a psychological density that matches the density of society: for Dwan, a gunfight is a complex football play with life at stake, occurring in mere seconds, and his images seem to diagram the decisive machine-like calculations that spin through the gunfighter's head, instantaneously determining the action.

Notable among these films were Henry King's The Gunfighter (1950), Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 (1950) and The Man from Laramie (1955), Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952), George Stevens's Shane (1953), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1956), William Wyler's The Big Country (1958), and Hawks's Rio Bravo (1959).

Indeed, "Little Big Man" deconstructed and devalued a big chunk of western iconography -- the captivity tale, the saintly townswoman, the gunfighter, Custer's Last Stand.

It is a haiku of despair to be compared and contrasted with Gene Hackman's gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven being told that he'd just assaulted an "innocent" man – Hackman snarls: "Innocent?

Spur is a sage who hovers on the peripheries of the story, lobbing in words of wisdom and wooing women with lines like "Tell me, by what magic do you transform this humble farmyard chicken into such delicate ambrosia?" Reminiscent of Lee Marvin's devilishly good split performance as a gangster and a gunfighter in Elliot Silverstein's Cat Ballou (1965), Douglas is an utter delight.

Stevens's gunfighter eyes.