No Name on the Bullet

Starring:Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, R.G. Armstrong, Willis Bouchey, Edgar Stehli, Simon Scott, Karl Swenson, Whit Bissell, Charles Watts, John Alderson, Jerry Paris, Russ Bender, James Hyland, Harold Goodwin, Edgar Dearing, William Mims, Fern Barry
Director: Jack Arnold
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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No Name on the Bullet
Starring: Audie Murphy , Charles Drake , Joan Evans , Virginia Grey , and Warren Stevens
Director: Jack Arnold
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001FVDW8
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Classic Audie Murphy.......2006-12-23

People who think Audie Murphy didn't have any acting talent need to watch this movie. It is so not your typical B-Western. Murphy shines as a cold, calculated hired killer -- cast very much against type. The supporting cast lends credibility to this psychological thriller, particularly Charles Drake as the town's doctor.

The plot is simple and well written. This is not about a gunfighter, such as the classic "The Gunfighter" with Gregory Peck. Gant is an infamous hired killer riding into a town and watching as people with well-hidden secrets begin to crumble. Murphy's calm and matter-of-fact satisfaction with the calamity he causes is striking. The surprise ending leaves the viewers with an obvious message...sometimes you have to become evil to fight evil.

You will not be disappointed with "No Name on the Bullet."

Audie Murphy.......2006-11-10

I think our most decorated war hero was type cast in action films,namely low budget westerns. He may have been a better actor than that, if given the chance.

What A Movie!!!!.......2006-03-06

I've been watching movies a long, long time. I've seen many westerns in my time and like most of them. So imagine to my surprise when I found out that until I saw this film I had never seen an Audie Murphy film. Imagine my shock when I watched in amazement as this story unravel. A western, but a different kind of western. A psychological western. Audie is the bad guy. A man come to town to kill someone. Question is who. The town goes bonkers trying to find out his little secret. Paranoia runs rampant throughtout. Everyone is basically played off against each other until the secret is out who Audue is there to take out. Watching the townspeople go nuts was fantastic. Just a tad let down at the end, but seems typical for the late 50's film that it is. I'm not going to give it away. You see for yourself. Now that I've seen this film I want to see other films of Audie Murphy. Enjoy this one. You will not be disappointed if it is a good western you are looking for.

Chilling Western Classic.......2005-06-27

There are people who love to do "lists" on AOL with regard to movies and such, and you can usually tell something about their age and their overall exposure to artistic genres by what they list in terms of their notions of "the best". Most such lists don't don't usually reflect much other than abysmal ignorance of the subjects they address.

Any list of supposed "best westerns" that doesn't include Audie Murphy's awesome "No Name On the Bullet" is about as hare brained as one that doesn't include "The Ox Bow Incident" , "The Virginian", "The Gunfighter", "Broken Arrow", "Red River", "Dodge City", "The Searchers", "Shane", "Rio Bravo", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Winchester 73", or John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy on it.

Fact is , the most decorated soldier...not just of World War Two...but in the entire history of the U.S. Armed Forces...could not only call artillery down on himself while he machine-gunned down an entire enemy rifle company with a .50 calbre machine gun mounted on the back of a disabled, burning tank destroyer (earning a Congressional Medal of Honor in the process)...he could also ACT. AND, if given good material and capable direction, he could do some FINE acting.

"No Name On the Bullet" is vivid, engrossing proof of that contention. This is a western that is anything BUT "run of the mill". Put it up against "High Noon" and it has twice the tension and edginess, and Audie Murphy's "John Gant" would have Gary Cooper's "Marshal Will Kane" leaving town so fast he'd leave a windstorm in his wake.

Murphy's Gant is a hired killer who rides into Lordsburg one day and sets the entire town on edge. Gant's reputation is considerable. He is said to be lightning fast with a six gun and deadly accurate.He is also known to have put many men into the ground, a lot of whom were considered good gun-hands themselves.
Gant's methodolgy is to goad his target into a shootout. In this manner the killing is waived as a "self-defense" claim...quite common and effective in the 19th century West.

In Gant's case, nobody knows who he intends to kill until the event actually goes down. And here in Lordsburg everyone from bankers to miners to saloon-keepers to store-owners worries that it might be THEM...("Everybody has enemies")

From the hour Gant hits town, stress and paranoia begin to take over. People all over town are convinced that THEY are the targets and some neighbor of theirs might be the one who hired this killer to "do" them. People turn against each other and the entire town becomes a powderkeg of volatility.

And Gant enjoys every minute of it. He enjoys psychologically terrorizing these people. Playing them. He enjoys the effect his name has on them, how they "kowtow" to him and cringe when he walks by. Oh, he plays nicey-nice and ambivalent at all times. He is polite, well-spoken, obviously sophisticated, educated, and well-read (a friend commented to me once that, if t.v.'s "Have Gun, Will Travel" Paladin character were written to be a clean shaven, babyfaced psychopath, then this would be him).
Yet there is a smug little smirk he carries around with him, and a glinting look that comes into his eyes at times that say.."watch yourself around this boyo...he's not playing with a full deck of cards". Or does he just lack true depth of feeling or conscience?

One intriguing scene has a mob of townsmen accost Gant at the porch of the city hotel. They are going to try to frighten him off...tell him to get out of town before they all cut loose on him. He looks at them withn utter contempt and urges them to have at it. He tells them which ones he's going to kill right off and then tells the rest they can take their own chances before he drops. The mob scatters quickly. They want none of what he is selling. The scene works because of the steely-eyed believability of Murphy's performance...AND because of the psychological awareness by the audience that this IS Audie Murphy on this porch...someone who in real life could street-slap "Scarface".

Gant is a very complex character as played by Murphy. He is both likable and scary at the same time. And Murphy the actor works the nuances that swing him back and forth BETWEEN the likable and the scary in brilliant fashion. This is GOOD acting
here. Murphy delivers a cowboy "boogeyman" on par with Robert Mitchum's evil preacher in "Night of the Hunter", and, on the strength of this performance in "No Name", one would have to consider that Audie Murphy could have turned in a hair-raising Norman Bates in "Psycho" if Anthony Perkins had not gotten the role.

Everyone else in this film does a great job. Filled with familiar character-actor faces throughout, the story moves along with nary a drag and just pulls you into its multi-faceded story line and holds you there right to the end.

"No Name On the Bullet". Remember that title. If you're a fan of westerns,or good movies in general, you need to be aware of it and sit yourself down to watch it sometime. It's a "Good'un".

Western morality play.......2005-01-13

Audie Murphy excels in this low-key suspenseful western. His portrayal of [...] John Gant is one of his finest roles: stoic, pragmatic and cooly emotionless, yet not without humor and even a soft side. Those who like Audie Murphy westerns will enjoy this movie.

The rest of the cast is great, and the suspense created by the characters not knowing which town citizen will be Murphy's victim is truly nail-biting. The over reactions and false conclusions of those who feel they will be the victim lead inevitably to tragic consequences.

At a compact hour and seventeen minute run time, this movie is a lot of fun and doesn't waste any time getting right to the action. A forgotten western gem that has finally debuted on DVD.

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