Winchester 73

There must be a terrific laundry in this town. Every actor's clothes are perfectly cleaned and pressed except for John Saxon. Appears the costume lady just went down the movies studio's "cowboy clothes" department and pulled out something from the 1950's for everyone. Secondly, I take part in shoot competitions and have never seen anyone who could shoot as well as these guys. Totally unbelievable. Thirdly, the depictions of "Indians" is an insult to real native Americans. It's hard to understand why movie studios would put money into this kind of amateurish film. I gave it a 2 only because it had some nice scenery.

I don't know what it says about some of the contributors to this site that they seem to want to eulogise the guns that are featured in films rather than dwell on their harmful consequences.This is a cheap and shoddy TV remake by Universal of one of the great Westerns of all time.They have a determination to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator .It is quite apparent that they want to keep the cast list to below 10 and use all of their standing sets at Universal City.Their "Indian Tribe" seems to consist of just 2 individuals.The acting of the younger members of the cast is so wooden that you would believe that their faces are incapable of mobility.The shootout at the end is poorly staged and the whole film is a total bore which even a fine actor such as Dan Duryea cannot redeem.

Not unwatchable, but close to it. I agree with malcomgsw, this pales in comparison to the classic from 1950, one of my personal favorites from any genre. The changes to the plot do not improve upon the original but overly complicate it - in this case less is more. John Saxon gives the best performance here, making the most of a thin script. Saxon is good at playing creeps, see him in "The Appaloosa" with Brando. Tom Tryon gives a wooden performance, shortly before giving up acting to become a writer. It was gratifying to see Dan Duryea from the earlier film, but his turn here seems tired, while in the original he was one of the more memorable villains in screen history. John Drew Barrymore's hippie character is unusual, but out of place in a western, kind of like Donald Sutherland in "Kelly's Heroes". All in all, an inferior remake of a superior film. I would, however, take issue with malcolmgsw's comment that some IMDb contributors seem to "want to eulogize the guns that are featured in films rather than dwell on their harmful consequences". We can of course, dwell on anything we want to, but while we're dwelling, what about the people living on the frontier whose lives were saved by having firearms nearby? Just saying.

The only thing that kept me watching was how impressed I was with the picture for 1967 - bright, vid, and quite sharp. I don't know if I was watching an upgraded version or what but it looked amazing.

Now, the writing - wow, it's really bad. None of the characters make any sense in what they are doing. None of them. They all seem to make the most random and horrible decisions. I could only watch 20 minutes but it kept getting worse and worse. Do not watch more than a couple minutes.

An inferior remake , this fare is a plain , brisk-paced , direct , mean and entirely entertaining , but mediocre . The picture is developed in 1873 in Onyx and talks about Lin McAdam (Tom Tryon in similar role to James Stewart) and there arrives his cousin Dakin McAdam (John Saxon) to participate in the town competition , and the competitor to be a winner , he will acquire the latest iron from the East , a Winchester 73 rifle . Two cousins - one an ex-con and the other a law officer - compete for possession of a famed repeating rifle. The sheriff obligates strangers to leave their guns . Both of them participate in a shot-contest, then Lin earns an state-of-the-art Winchester 73 , the greatest rifle in the west , but it is robbed and starting the possession through hand to hand , as the sheriff chases his stolen rifle as it changes hands , going on a merciless manhunt . Starring finally corners the original thief at a church with an engrossing and unfortunate shooot-out . Meanwhile , the. Mile by Mile...Showdown by Showdown...He Wreaked the West's Most Terrifying Vengeance! .The Gun That Won The West!

A regular television Western with nice actors , action-packed , sweaty , shootouts , chases , plot twists and breathtaking duels . The script results to be an adaptation based on ¨Big gun¨ , a novel written by Stuart L. Lake and screenwriter by prestigious Borden Chase, being also based about real events because 4 July 1876 in Dodge City had a shot competition and the winner was rewarded with a Winchester 73 model 1873 with ability shoot 17 cartridges caliber 44/40 in a few seconds . Of course, all the western's essential elements are in this film, such as : crossfire , Red Indian attack , violent raids by outlaws , final showdown , among others . Based on the 1950 landmark western ¨Winchester 73¨ that achieved to revive the genre during the decade 50s and that had excellent acting by an outstanding and notorious cast as Dan Duryea , Tony Curtis , Shelley Winters , John Doucette and James Stewart in his first western , subsequently following a lot , most of them directed by Anthony Mann ; formerly , in the early 1930s Stewart had worked with Mann in the theater . This TV retelling Winchester 73 (1967) stands out thanks to an extraordinary support casting , some of them in brief apparitions , such as : John Drew Barrymore , Paul Fix , Jack Lambert , John Hoyt , Ned Romero , James Griffith , Joan Blondell , John Dehner . While Dan Duryea and John Doucette also appeared in the original 1950 theatrical rendition directed by Anthony Mann, of which this is a reboot.

The breathtaking cinematography in in brilliant colour is well made by Bud Thackery , accompanying a thrilling and moving musical score by Sol Kaplan . This oater was regularly directed by ordinary TV director , whose career expanded exclusively in the small screen . He is known for his work on a lot of TV series , such as : General Electric Theater (1953), Star Trek (1966) and Misssion: Impossible (1966) , The Time Tunnel , Banacek , Cannon , Petrocelli, Murder for Murder , Ghost Story , Hawaii 5 0, Cimarron , High Chaparral , Hec Ramsey, Marcus Welby , Custer , Shane , Doctor Kildare , Bonanza , FBI , Gunsmoke and many others. Rating : 5.5/10 , only for Western hardcore lovers.