Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
92 min | Action, Western | 14 October 1964 (USA)
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Director: Richard Wilson
Writers: Hal Goodman (story), Larry Klein (story)
Stars: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal
92 min | Action, Western | 14 October 1964 (USA)
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Director: Richard Wilson
Writers: Hal Goodman (story), Larry Klein (story)
Stars: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal
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00:00Our good Reverend Brother McMichaels has given me leave to speak a few words over the body of my friend, and yours.
00:10A union hero of Apache Canyon.
00:14One of the few to return to us from that valley of death.
00:20May John Medford's soul rest in peace.
00:23Amen.
00:27Peace for John Medford.
00:30But not for us, my friends. Not yet.
00:32This morning, we woke up to find that we've got still another widow in a town that's already got more than it's share.
00:38And she was wounded by a rabid, Matt Weaver.
00:41No, the war's not over for us, friends.
00:44This Confederate soldier, he's still in uniform, mind, still, bearing arms.
00:49Invaded this township, broke into my house, tried to kill me, broke out of jail.
00:53You believe our good sheriff?
00:55In the secret places, he did smite to death and innocent.
00:58I put it to you, how do we smite this, this enemy of the Lord?
01:02Now, listen here. You listen here to me.
01:06I brung the first wagons in.
01:08I can bring this rebel boy into stand trial.
01:12I got to bring him in.
01:14Now, we're not forgetting what you done when you was able, you old war horse.
01:18We're not gonna send you out to get cut on by a crazy rib.
01:20Suppose you just tell us what you're working us up to.
01:23Now, lacking a posse or a sheriff able to do the job,
01:28come to me, we could call on the U.S. Marshal in Santa Fe for help.
01:32Except, the U.S. Marshal's got a territory full of looters and rebs to clean out.
01:36Last word from Santa Fe, they got a backlog a year long.
01:39But we can't wait a year. We can't wait a week. Business will go to pot.
01:43Well, how many more can Matt Weaver widow in a year?
01:47I hear you, Mr. McKeever.
01:49Oh, I'm digging into my own pocket.
01:51I sent Crane Adams to Amarillo to hire a lawman
01:54able to flush that reb out of these hills
01:56and end this war we thought was over.
02:00A lawman, Mr. Brewster?
02:02Crane went to find a gunfighter.
02:04A gunfighter kills the man he goes after.
02:06No trial, no jury. Guilty or innocent, he kills him.
02:09Are you asking us to believe...
02:11I'm asking you nothing, Mrs. Adams.
02:13Women don't vote here.
02:18You turning this funeral service into a meeting, Sam?
02:20Well, I've got a vote.
02:22And I'm asking you.
02:24Are you saying we're not going to hear Matt's side of it?
02:26Dispense with all due process of law?
02:28How many here besides me lost sons?
02:31Hands!
02:32How many here lost husbands?
02:35Hands!
02:36Due process of law, Bucker, in wartime?
02:39Until every last murdering reb lays down his arms, it's still war.
02:43And we got a new widow in our midst that needs our help.
02:46Stand not, brother. Stand not.
02:49Give. Give.
02:52And it shall be given unto you.
02:57All aboard.
03:02You're paid through the Santa Fe.
03:06About your little life, huh?
03:10Don't look for it to last.