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62% Critic Match
Day of the Evil Gun
“They had one enemy even more deadly than the Apaches... each other!”
6.2 / 10• 1968• 1h 35m•G• English
Western
Storyline
Returning home after disappearing three years ago, former gunslinger Lorn Warfield finds that an Apache raiding party has kidnapped his wife and children. Though he has renounced violence, he now takes up his gun and joins forces with his neighbor, Owen Forbes. Complicating matters, Forbes is engaged to Warfield's wife, who believed her husband was dead. As they pursue the Apaches, the two men are joined by an Indian trader, Jimmy Noble.
Cast & Crew
Glenn Ford
Lorn Warfield
Lead
Arthur Kennedy
Owen Forbes
Dean Jagger
Jimmy Noble
Harry Dean Stanton
Sergeant Parker
John Anderson
Captain Jefferson Addis
Paul Fix
Sheriff Kelso
Nico Minardos
DeLeon
Parley Baer
Willford
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jerry Thorpe's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Day of the Evil Gun is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
