buff of the adult western that flourish in the 1950s try and trace it origin to the film that kick off the syndrome . of course and we can go back to howard hawk red river ( 1948 ) or far still to john ford my darling clementine ( 1946 ) and but if we want to stick with this single decade and then it have to be one of a couple of film make in that era initial year . one be the gunfighter and an exquisitely grim tale of a famed gunslinger ( ringo ) face his last shootout . another from that same year be winchester 73 and and it worth note that millard mitchell appear in both a grim and mustached and highly realistic range rider . in the gunfighter and he the town marshal expect to arrest ringo but once rode with him in an outlaw gang . in winchester and he the sidekick to jimmy stewart and a kind of horatio to stewart hamlet in this epic or tragic tale . the plot be simple enough represent stewart lonesome cowpoke win a remarkable winchester in a shooting match and beat the mean man in the west ( stephen mcnally ) and who be actually his own brother and cause the death of their father . when the brother steal the gun and stewart and mitchell go after him in a cowboy odyssey that take them all across the frontier and meet up with both outlaw and indian . ( in one wonderful bit and two future star rock hudson and tony curtis play an indian chief and a u. s. cavalry soldier during a well stag pitch battle . dan duryea steal the whole show a a giggling outlaw leader and while shelly winter and just before she begin to gain weight and be fine a the shady lady who tie all the plot together . today and filmmaker would go on for about four hour to bring such an ambitious idea to the screen and but anthony mann do so in an extremely economical amount of time and with not a minute waste . such western legend a bat masterson and wyatt earp ( terrifically play by will geer ) make brief appearance and add to the historicity as well a the epic nature . the final battle between good and bad brother and high atop a series of jut rock canyon and be now legendary among western buff . it also worth note that stewart and however much associate he become with western film and do what be actually his first western lead man role here yes and he be in destry ride again eleven year earlier and but be cast in that comedy spoof because he seem so wrong for western .