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Gunslinger | Showdown
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Best Music Original Song | 1953
Best Film Editing | 1953 | Elmo
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1953 | Gary
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1953
Best Actor Drama | 1953 | Gary
Best Supporting Actress | 1953 | Katy
Best Original Score | 1953
Best Cinematography Black and White | 1953 | Floyd
Top Ten Films | 1952
Motion Picture | 2013
Best American Film Bedste amerikanske film | 1953
Best Written American Drama | 1953
1953 | Gary
Best Foreign Film Mejor Pelcula Extranjera | 1954
Most Promising Newcomer Female | 1953 | Katy
Best Screenplay | 1953
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1953
Best Audio Commentary Library Release | 2003
Top Female Supporting Performance | 1954 | Katy
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1953
Budget 730,000 USD
Box Office Collection 8,000,000 USD
In 1951, after 25 years in show business, Gary Cooper's professional reputation was in decline, and he was dropped from the "Motion Picture Herald's" list of the top-ten box-office performers. In the following year, he made a big comeback, at the age of 51, with this film.
There was some question as to the casting of Gary Cooper, since he was 50 and Grace Kelly, playing his wife, was only 21, despite this being fairly commonplace for the period in which this film was set. Will Kane was only supposed to be about 30.
Fred Zinnemann said that the black smoke billowing from the train is a sign that the brakes were failing. He and the cameraman didn't know it at the time, and barely got out of the way. The camera tripod snagged itself on the track and fell over, smashing the camera, but the film survived, and is in the movie.
Lee Van Cleef was originally hired to play Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell. However, producer Stanley Kramer decided that his nose was too "hooked," which made him look like a villain, and told him to get it fixed. Van Cleef refused, and Lloyd Bridges got the part. Van Cleef was given the smaller role of gunman Jack Colby, one of the Miller gang.
In the fight scene involving Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) and Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell (Lloyd Bridges), Lloyd's son, Beau Bridges, then a youngster, was in the hayloft watching the filming. When water was thrown on his father after the fight, Beau could not help laughing, requiring the scene to be shot a second time. Cooper was unwell and in pain, but was gracious and understanding, according to Lloyd.
"Helen: You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man."
"Martin: You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
