Sentence examples for gunfighters from inspiring English sources
An oversize poster for a silent movie about Jesse James epitomises the popular tales of ex-Confederates who re-emerged as outlaw gunfighters.
Producer and director Howard Hughes had been looking for a curvaceous leading lady to portray Rio McDonald a young woman caught in a love triangle with gunfighters Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday and after an extensive search he picked Russell for the sultry role.
one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West, reputed to have killed at least 27 men before being gunned down at about age 21.
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.
They came into the Aquatic Centre here yesterday with the edgy demeanour of gunfighters and what they told us was the oldest story of the Olympics – the one that makes each new one, for all the controversy and the doubts, a fresh step into a potentially wondrous unknown.
It has not only male but female gunfighters….
Popular entertainment: fiction, films, then television, by its heroic portrayals of gunfighters--lawmen and killers alike--made the handgun seem an attractive arbiter of civilian conflict.
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.
