Sentence examples for gunfighter in from inspiring English sources

The trainer Chad Brown had a leading 11 horses pre-entered, including Last Gunfighter in the Classic.

Wyatt Earp is good in a gunfight – he's brave and generally hits what he aims at – but he's not a gunfighter in the classic sense.

The Smithee alias was created for the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, in which Don Siegel replaced director Robert Totten in the director's chair after Totten had shot 25 days of footage.

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?

But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy gunfighter in Blazing Saddles and as the charming candy man in the children's favorite Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

(Criterion, July 20, Blu-ray and DVD, $39.95) STEPHANIE ZACHAREK OTHER RELEASES Lee Marvin is wonderful in his Oscar-winning role as a drunken gunfighter in the western spoof "Cat Ballou," which also features the charms of the young Jane Fonda (Tuesday).

Playing it straight, Wilder was effective in two Brooks parodies: the Waco Kid, an alcoholic ex-gunfighter in Blazing Saddles, and an American descendant of the god-playing doctor in Young Frankenstein, "pronounced Fronkensteen" (both 1974).

There were never many gunfighters in the American West, and there have never been many mobsters in American cities.

We parted company for ever and stalked to opposite ends of the town like gunfighters in search of ammo.

Whether, to paraphrase a line uttered by gunfighters in old Western films, there is room in this business for both companies remains to be seen.

A Theory of Archetypal Ingénues and Third-Wave Feminists in Their Youth "Pretty Woman" and "Thelma and Louise" flanked my first postcollege year like a couple of quick-draw gunfighters in a Wild West showdown.