Customer Rating: 
Summary: Stars Mitchum and Sterling NOT Adler and Ames
Comment: As of December 24, 2008 Amazon lists the "stars" of this movie as Jay Adler and Florence Ames, which might cause people to overlook this great Robert Mitchum and Jan Sterling flick. I tried to use Amazon's "catalog update" form to correct this error, but got email saying they could not verify my suggestion, even though I sent them a link to the IMDB page which listed Robert Mitchum and Jan Sterling as the top credited actors.
Amazon is showing Adler and Ames are shown as the stars of the movie, even though they have only minor parts, because ALPHABETICALLY they are the first two actors. Mitchum and Sterling don't even make it on Amazon's list of actors because their names appear so late in the alphabet.
I'm hoping someone else can come up with a way to get Amazon to fix their catalog: I'd hate to think Amazon's error will cause people to miss seeing this fine film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Robert Mitchum Series ... The Man with the Gun (1955) ... Allied Artists"
Comment: Allied Artists. presents "THE MAN WITH THE GUN" (5 November 1955) (84 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, Our hero Clint Tollinger (Robert Mitchum) comes to town looking for his estranged wife Nelly Bain (Jan Sterling) --- He finds her running the local girls, one of them Angie Dickinson --- He also finds a town and Marshal Lee Sims (Henry Hull) afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks --- The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out --- Mitchum is brilliant, idiosyncratic, usually undervalued Westerns import his film noir persona to etch some compellingly dark character sketches --- Mitchum takes to his character well and always seemed to enjoy the darker more complex characters that some of his westerns would serve him up with --- Mitchum's regression from soft-spoken stranger to deranged murderer, with a host of dark emotions in between, is a marvel of expressive, physical acting at it's best --- This film keeps a very fast and exciting pace, it really keeps you on the edge --- Good supporting cast by Jan Sterling as Mitchum's saloon-gal wife, Henry Hull as an ageing marshal, John Lupton as an honest young farmer, and Emile Meyer as the town's leading citizen --- This oater is a Classic Western from the '50s not to be missed.
Under the production staff of:
Richard Wilson - Director / Screenwriter / Screen Story
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. - Producer
N.B. Stone, Jr. - Screenwriter / Screen Story
Lee Garmes - Cinematographer
Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Alex North - Composer (Music Score)
Gene Milford - Editor
Hilyard M. Brown - Art Director
Edward Boyle - Set Designer
Jerry Bos - Costume Designer
Evelyn Carruth - Costume Designer
John Keane - Sound/Sound Designer
Don L. Cash - Makeup
Sid Sidman - First Assistant Director
Anthony Carras - Sound Editor
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Robert Mitchum
Date of Birth: 6 August 1917 - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date of Death: 1 July 1997 - Santa Barbara, California
the cast includes:
Robert Mitchum ... Clint Tollinger
Jan Sterling ... Nelly Bain
Karen Sharpe ... Stella Atkins
Henry Hull ... Marshal Lee Sims
Emile Meyer ... Saul Atkins
John Lupton ... Jeff Castle
Barbara Lawrence ... Ann Wakefield
Ted de Corsia ... 'Frenchy' Lescaux (as Ted De Corsia)
Leo Gordon ... Ed Pinchot
James Westerfield ... Mr. Zender (drummer)
Jay Adler ... Cal
Claude Akins ... Jim Reedy
Florenz Ames ... Doc Hughes
Joe Barry ... Dade Holman
Norma Calderón ... Luz
Thom Conroy ... Bill Emory
Angie Dickinson ... Kitty
Mara McAfee ... Mable
Burt Mustin ... Hotel desk clerk
Maidie Norman ... Sarah (Nelly's maid)
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- If you're into the memories of B-Westerns with high drama, this is the one you've been anxiously waiting for --- please stand up and take a bow Western Classics --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 84 mins on DVD ~ Allied Artists ~ (5/13/2008)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Western
Comment: Man With The Gun is a great western. Mitchum is the brooding professional gunfighter just passing through, who reluctantly agrees to solve the town's problem with local ruffians and then refuses to quit when his methods draw criticism. Plenty of action. Black and white photography enhances the genre.
The overall plot is typical wherein a land baron seeks to gain more and more control of the territory and town and he uses the aforementioned ruffians to intimidate the townfolk. Mitchum makes the whole thing work and watchable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beware of ramped up reviews
Comment: I enjoy westerns, Mitchum is one of my favorite underrated actors and, when it comes to movies I don't recall seeing OR hearing about, I am usually skeptical of strong reviews without the confirmation of well known amazon reviewers. This movie has a 'Top 500' reviewer and that sold me for an inexpensive bet. DON'T BITE!!You have to REALLY like Mitchum to justify this clunker. Maybe the issuers are building big reviewers just to take advantage of this kind of browsing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mitchum can't save tedious, cliched B western
Comment: Slow, cliche ridden, poorly paced excuse for a B-Western can't be saved even by Mitchum's strong presence. Overblown musical score, undeveloped secondary characters, uninspired photography. There have been many great movies made with the theme of a town tamer brought in to clean up a tough town, only to be despised for doing his job -- amongst the legion of great films along these lines I'd recommend "Warlock", with Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn. This movie is not in that class. Definitely avoid it unless you are in need of a Robert Mitchum fix.
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