Day of the Evil Gun

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Interrogation by Vandalism: Warfield gets Noble to drop his Obfuscating Insanity by starting a fire under his wagon and not allowing him to move it until he spills what he knows about the Apache. Later, Forbes uses an almost identical tactic against the storekeeper in the cholera town: soaking his store in kerosene and threatening to drop a lit match unless he he tells him where the Apache camp is.

Ford is forceful enough but burned out from the mayhem he's created in the past. Kennedy is by far the more ruthless of the two.

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Book Ends: Starts and ends with an unarmed Lorn Warfield attempting to walk away from someone who is trying to goad him into a gunfight. Glenn Ford again plays the grim faced gunfighter, a part he had down pat. The vastly under rated Arthur Kennedy plays nicely off of Ford as the two compete for the same woman. Ford never fully explains where he has been for the past three years. Paul Fix and Dean Jagger are wasted here as both have only brief cameo-like roles. There is no real leading lady to speak of, an oddity. An Indian trader ( Dean Jagger), who feigns insanity (as the Indians will not kill a crazy person), reluctantly provides Warfield with some information. Next, Warfield and Forbes are captured by the Apaches and staked out on the ground to die. However, Mexican bandit DeLeon (who has dealings with the Indians) believes Warfield's story that he hid his money before he was caught and cuts him loose. Warfield manages to convince DeLeon to free Forbes and to lead them to the Apache encampment. Forbes mistakenly kills DeLeon before he can show them where the camp is.

The Plague: Warfield and Forbes arrive in a small frontier town where they are hoping to resupply, only to find it is gripped by a cholera outbreak. Circling Vultures: Buzzards start circling above Warfield and Forbes after the Apache stake them out in the desert to die. They soon start landing for a closer look.Glenn Ford would continue to act until the early '90 in films and TV. After Day of the Evil Gun he still managed to participate in one classic, the very first big budget comic book epic: Superman (1978). He was excellent and is still the most memorable film interpretation of Jonathan Kent, Superman's adopted earth father. Despite the fact that he had only about two scenes. Arthur Kennedy would also keep on working until his death in 1990, but nothing memorable. Day of the Evil Gun is a 1968 American traditional Western starring Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, and Dean Jagger. It was directed by Jerry Thorpe. But they have to stay allied because they do come across a whole lot of low lifes on their journey into Apache country. On the way there they come into a charming, but coldblooded Mexican bandit in Nico Minardos, a cholera epidemic in a town with an avaricious store owner in James Griffith and some army deserters who are an outlaw gang with John Anderson in charge. Obfuscating Insanity: Indian trader Jimmy Noble feigns insanity as the Indians will not kill a crazy person. According to the IMDB, actor R.G. Armstrong was in a deleted scene, and Lee J. Cobb is in the picture too. I either missed him or he was cut out as well. Peter Ford tells us that Lon Chaney Jr. flew down to play a role but was incapable of doing so because of his drinking problem.

The 18 May 1967 issue stated that actor Earl Holliman had declined a role in the film due to a prior obligation. Other cast members included Mark Richman (26 Jul 1967 DV); Lon Chaney, Jr., who replaced R. G. Armstrong after the latter was unable to fulfill his commitment (15 Aug 1967 DV); Jose Chavez (22 Aug 1967 DV); and Peter Ford, son of Glenn Ford and dancer Eleanor Powell (8 Aug 1967 LAT). Nine days later, DV reported that Peter Ford was forced to withdraw from the project after being diagnosed with typhus. Retired Gunfighter: Lorn Warfield is this at the start of the movie. Learning his wife and children have been taken by the Apaches forces him to strap on his guns once more. The McCalls are the other family. Patriarch Cyrus has one of the biggest ranches around. But someone has been rustling cattle from the Big Sky Ranch. And Cyrus decides barbed wire might be a way to stop the stealing, even if it inconveniences his neighbors.

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A criminally neglected Western deserving far greater notoriety is 1968’s “Day of the Evil Gun,” a downbeat, unusually brutal film starring Glenn Ford and five-time Oscar nominee Arthur Kennedy. Read on for a detailed review. Seen here as the conflicted, prodigal gunslinger Lorn Warfield, Ford is captured brandishing a six gun in “Day of the Evil Gun,” distributed to theaters on March 1, 1968. Image Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Red List Day of the Evil Gun" is another Glenn Ford western in which he plays a "fast on the draw gunfighter". The theme is similar in nature to John Ford's "The Searchers" released two years earlier. Day of the Evil Gun opened 27 Mar 1968 in Cincinnati, OH, as indicated by a 3 Apr 1968 Var box-office report. Openings followed in New York City on 24 Apr 1968, and in Los Angeles, CA, on 15 May 1968 to lukewarm critical notices. A 15 May 1968 LAT review stated that MGM was making little effort to promote the film. When questioned about this fact during an interview for the 13 Oct 1968 LAT, Glenn Ford was philosophical, comparing the movie business to gambling. Ghost Town: Warfield and Forbes enter the deserted Mormon settlement of Obed, where they encounter a detachment of U.S. Cavalry led by "Captain" Jefferson Addis, who turn out to actually be a band of Dangerous Deserters.