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4T' The Gun-Fighter “The Gun-fighter”, starring Gregory Peck in the titular role, departs from the usual formula of the Western screenplay to bring to moviegoers a suspenseful drama of the ill-fated effort of a man to break with his past. Actually, “The Gun-Fighter” more effec- tively proves the claim that "crime doesn’t pay” than any photoplay publicly exhibited to date, according to trade paper critics who have viewed it. Gregory Peck portrays a notorious gunman, whose six-shooter is out with many notches, but who, at long last, comes to the realization that he has been on the wrong path. He makes a sin- cere effort to straighten out his life, but to no avail. In his sanguinary career he has created, as he soon discovers, a sort of Frankenstein mon- ster — and the monster destroys its maker. It is a character that is wholly new to the screen—a restless, courageous youngster who grew to a manhood that made him a hero in the eyes of many, but an outlaw who could never bring happiness to his family. In the early days when America’s most notorious outlaws terrorized the law-building pioneers and builders of a new enpire, none was more feared, none was quicker on the draw than Jimmy Ringo, a character pat- terned after a real-life character, John Ringo, whose gun added its staccato chatter to the blood-stained epic of theold and wild West before the turn of the century. The fast-moving, suspense-packed story, an original screenplay by William Bowers and William Sellers, has an 1890 setting, with the action taking place in a little crossroads town dfcen in the West. One of the screen's foremost directors, Henry King, chose to forego a long-planned vacation in order to mentor “The Gun-Fighter”. King had spent almost a year preparing and filming “The Prince Of Foxes” in Italy, and six additional months making“12O’clock High”, starring Gregory Peck, when the new script came along. Titian-tressed Jean Parker, absent from the screen for six years, is Molly, a bai-room enter- tainer. Millard Mitchel, rapidly becoming one of the screen’s most sought-after actors, again is teamed with Peck in the role of Marshal Mark Strett. In “12 O’clock High”, Mitchell played Peck’s commanding officer. Others io the cast include Karl Malden, Skip Hoemier, Ellen Corby, Anthony Ross, Mae Marsh, Michael Branden, Dan White, Forest Matthewx, Kenneth Tobey, Jean Inness, Credda Zajac, Hank Patterson, Cliff Clark, Angela Clark, Vema Felton, Eddie Ehrhart, Herman Nowlin, Kim Spalding, Anne Whitfield, and Marvin Smith. Arthur Miller was the Cameraman. One trade paper critic said this picture "be- gins where ‘Yellow Sky’ left off”. The reader will recall that in "Yellow Sky” Peck was the leader of a gang of renegades, veterans of the Civil War, who terrorized the Southwest. How- ever, “The Gun-Fighter” strikes an entirely dif- ferent note, the critics point out. There is no similarity whatsoever between Peck’s portrayals in "The Gun-Fighter” and "Yellow Sky”. Pictured above are three of the leading play- ers: Millard Mitchell as the marshall, Helen Westley and Peck. At the left a closeup of Jean Parker.