The Legend of the Golden Gun

Nice to see a movie with a moral, a good cast, good performances, especially Hal Holbrook & Keir Dullea. I felt the story was good, and the performances believable, and quite real, other than the characters always being made up. A good family movie.

Pretty sure it was not filmed in Kansas. Several Kansas towns are mentioned.

After years of searching I have finally found it! I remember this film from my childhood and I recall it giving me a spiritual lift, which for somebody who is now not very spiritual I could kind of do with rekindling. I could only remember certain thinks about the film, such as a old man passing on a golden gun and a white suit whilst training a young apprentice to shoot at plates when blind folded. I would love to see this film again, and would appreciate someone telling me where I can buy it from. Now and again I have thought about this film with a golden gun and asked friends and work colleagues whether they had seen it. Each time I was met with a blank face, or with the reply 'you mean the James Bond film'. At least now I know I did not imagine it. I suppose it's quite a sad admission but this film really made me feel happy!

If this is the movie I think it is, it is about a cowboy who is given a golden 7-shooter (vs the standard 6 shooters) by his mentor. He is given the wisdom "always save the 7th shot for evil!".

At once point he is tested by a saloon girl and former acquaintance of his mentor and she throws a playing card in the air (7 of hearts?) and he shoots six of the seven hearts on the card and when he is asked why he didn't shoot the seventh, it's the "always save the 7th shot for evil!". When I was a kid this was a great movie, if I saw it now it might have been uber cheesy.

It's been decades since I've seen this movie, so I'm real fuzzy on it, but I'd love to find a copy of it someplace.

This 'movie' seems to me as being a pilot for a TV series. It sets up the situation and defines the characters with a little Star Wars and a little Lone Ranger mixed together. Hal Holbrook as J.R. Swackhammer (or is it Yoda?) teaches our hero how to shoot bottles in the air while blind folded (John, feel your instincts)! It conveniently kills off Holbrook's character as he is the only actor of any substance. Jeff Osterhage as John Golden (Luke or maybe the Lone Ranger) has a side kick riding a painted horse. Sound familiar? I was waiting for it to turn into a Blazing Saddles style farce but all this was played as a straight story and never did. It apparently wasn't popular enough and was never made it to a series. This is all guess work but that's the way I see it.

I saw this show on Encore Westerns in April 2011, so it's still around.