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The Stranger Wore a Gun

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Plot

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

Cast

Randolph Scott as Jeff Travis
Randolph Scott

as Jeff Travis

Claire Trevor as Josie Sullivan
Claire Trevor

as Josie Sullivan

Lee Marvin as Dan Kurth
Lee Marvin

as Dan Kurth

Ernest Borgnine as Bull Slager
Ernest Borgnine

as Bull Slager

Joan Weldon as Shelby Conroy
Joan Weldon

as Shelby Conroy

George Macready as Jules Mourret
George Macready

as Jules Mourret

Alfonso Bedoya as Degas
Alfonso Bedoya

as Degas

Pierre Watkin as Jason Conroy
Pierre Watkin

as Jason Conroy

Joseph Vitale as Shorty
Joseph Vitale

as Shorty

Clem Bevans as Jim Martin
Clem Bevans

as Jim Martin

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Approved

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • July 30, 1953

Production Companies

  • Scott-Brown Productions

  • Columbia Pictures

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.37 hrs

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Jeff Travis – Quantrill’s Conscience. The Stranger Wore a Gun is directed by Andre De Toth and adapted to screenplay by Kenneth Gamet from the story Yankee Gold written by John W. Cunningham. It stars Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Pierre Watkin. A Technicolor/3-Dimension production, music is by Mischa Bakaleinikoff…

**_Randolph Scott is caught between good and evil in this action-packed oater_** A spy used in the infamous Quantrill raid on Lawrence, Kansas (Randolph Scott), flees to Prescott, Arizona, after the war and gets mixed up with a shady gang of stagecoach robbers (led by George Macready). Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are on hand as heavies. "The Stranger Wore a Gun" (1953) is a 3-D Western, …

When an innocent man is gunned down during a robbery, "Travis" (Randolph Scott) flees to a small Arizona town where he adopts a different identity. Not long after he arrives, though, he encounters his old malevolent friend "Mourret" (George Macready) and is soon embroiled in that man's scheme to rob the local freight line of it's regular gold supplies. When a tragedy occurs, he swears vengeance a…