Heaven with a Gun
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| Directed by | Lee H. Katzin |
| Produced by | Frank King Maurice King Herman King (associate producer) Red Hershon (associate producer) |
| Written by | Richard Carr |
| Starring | Glenn Ford Carolyn Jones Barbara Hershey John Anderson |
| Studio | King Brothers Productions |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| 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.
Plot [edit]
Preacher Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian is not just any preacher. He is a former gunslinger 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 (David Carradine) (both to be real-life wife and husband three years after the movie's release). Coke Beck happens to be the son of cattle rancher Asa Beck, and when Coke is stabbed to death through the neck, the cattlemen blame Killian.
Madge McCloud (Carolyn Jones), the whiskey-drinking madam of the town's saloon and brothel, 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 is also 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 [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Heaven with a Gun at the Internet Movie Database
- Heaven with a Gun at the TCM Movie Database
- Heaven with a Gun at AllRovi
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