Heaven with a Gun

Heaven with a Gun
Directed by	Lee H. Katzin
Produced by	Frank King Maurice King Herman King (associate producer) Red Hershon (associate producer)
Written by	Richard Carr (screenplay) John le Carré (novel)
Starring	Glenn Ford Carolyn Jones Barbara Hershey John Anderson
Release date(s)	June 11, 1969
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Heaven with a Gun is a 1969 western film starring Glenn Ford as Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path. Barbara Hershey plays Leloopa, an American Indian girl who looks up to Killian, and who becomes a target of opportunity for one of the cow hands, Coke Beck (played by David Carradine). Coke Beck happens to be the son of cattle rancher Asa Beck, and when Coke is shot down, the cattlemen blame preacher Killian.

As Madge McCloud, whiskey-drinking madam of the town's saloon and brothel, Carolyn Jones acts as Killian's conscience. After a gunslinger working for the cattlemen tries to kill Killian and four cowhands burn the church, Killian straps on his gun and prepares to act alone. Madge tells him that he must make a decision to be either a gunman or a preacher — he must choose between heaven and hell, else he risks the trust of the community. She tells him that trying to be both is a worse sort of hell. But there's a pending showdown between the cattlemen and the sheepherders over water rights, and somehow Killian must be in the middle of it, whether armed or not.

Cast

• Glenn Ford as Jim Killian
• Carolyn Jones as Madge McCloud
• Barbara Hershey as Leloopa
• John Anderson as Asa Beck
• David Carradine as Coke Beck
• J. D. Cannon as Mace
• Noah Beery, Jr. as Garvey
• William Bryant as Bart Paterson

External links

• Heaven with a Gun at the TCM Movie Database
• Heaven with a Gun at AllRovi
• Heaven with a Gun at the Internet Movie Database