Product Details

• Actors: Pat Bourke, Robert Carradine, Dick Chaney, Cliff Davis (II), Dale Graves
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305300631
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,498 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Gunfighter" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Christopher Coppola (nephew of Francis, who "presents" the film) attempts to capture the innocence of Saturday matinee Westerns in this naive little film. Gunfighter is framed as a tale told by a grizzled stranger (Martin Sheen) to a down and out guitar slinger and songwriter (Robert Carradine) in an abandoned ghost-town bar, but the dark interiors give way to bright color and widescreen photography. Stiff and colorless Chris Lybbert plays town hero Hopalong Cassidy, a tall, clean-cut figure of courage and moral fortitude who becomes the target of a vengeful cattle rustler who kidnaps his girl. Hoppy shoots the guns from his opponent's hands in the opening gunfight, pops the buttons from the same man's shirt in the final shootout, and in cliffhanger fashion is left tied up with a hissing bundle of lit dynamite. Coppola unfortunately bobbles the exercise in B-movie cowboy hokum with sloppy direction, and the film comes off more cornball than cute, though to its credit no recent film has come closer to capturing the straight-shooting simplicity of the kiddy cowboy heroes of yesteryear. -–Sean Axmaker

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GUNFIGHTER - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Please Gunfighter, shoot me. Ugh., January 30, 2001

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T. D. Hanshew "Just Some Dude" (Kennesaw, Ga USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gunfighter (DVD)

Having seen almost all of Christopher Coppola's movies (even the uncredited "Clockmaker"), I can say I would be considered the closest thing to a fan he has. That being said, this movie is torture. Even with the addition of Martin Sheen (the Sheens must owe Christopher a favor, Charlie appeared in his masterpiece "Deadfall"), and finally a speaking role for Christopher Coppola staple Billy Floyd, this movie is dreadfully bad. Watching this movie, a friend and I cried out to the heavens begging for mercy, and another friend left rather than finish watching it. However, if you do foolishly decide to endure this trial, do not give up. At the end of the movie, Robert Carradine delivers the most unbelievable look, outside of a beer commercial, ever captured on film. It's like the punchline to 90 minute joke. The bad thing is, the joke's on you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Jaw droppingly bad, March 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Gunfighter (DVD)

I once saw a group of middle aged men dressed as cowboys putting on a street show in Truckee, Ca. They were not actors and they played their parts with great enthusiasm. Watching Gunfighter reminded me of it. Those amateurs in Truckee looked like oscar winners in comparison.

Hopalong Cassidy, the all round good guy with the white hat has a pair of magic gloves, and these are wanted by the man in the black hat, who is the villain. The acting is stiff, but then it had to be with a script so wooden it must have been hewn from the coffin of every B movie ever made.

The headline star is Martin Sheen, but he only appears for a few minutes in order to set the scene as narrator. The rest of the cast, with the exception of Clu Gallagher, just have to be amateurs having fun in front of the camera.

As for the hapless Sheen and Robert Carradine this movie will haunt them for the rest of their careers.

Gunfighter is like watching your grandmother singing and dancing like Madonna. Unforgettable - but not in a good way.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Greatest comedy since Blazing Saddles...wait, it's not a comedy?, August 23, 2008

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AMP "Al" (Somewhere on Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gunfighter (DVD)

The Good Things
*It's extremely hilarious in an unintentional way.

The Bad Things
*Action scenes are not all that thrilling (and are rather silly).
*Filming style is poor (although I found the composition of some shots really funny).
*Characters are cliched and forgettable.
*Plot is simple and rather dumb.
*I found the whole spiel with the magic gunfighting gloves ridiculous.

This movie is so bad that it's hilarious. The characters, filming, plot, and overall film is completely laughable. That may be good for some, but this is definately not good quality filmmaking.

The DVD has poor video quality, for it has a lot of graininess, haze, fuzziness, and poor colors. The sound is kind of bad too. Disc is in widescreen (I forget whether or not it's anamorphic), and has no special features (maybe a trailer, but nothing more).