clint tollinger arrive in a small town look for his estranged wife and news of his daughter and tho he find her and the chance of any sort of reconciliation be very slim . whilst here and the sheriff and the important townsfolk learn of tollinger reputation a a pistol specialist town tamer . a they be live in fear of a mysterious landowner who be strip the town from them bit by bit and they hold a meeting that choose to hire tollinger to rid the town of it unsavoury element . man with the gun seem to be either a forgotten piece or a vastly under see one and at the time of me write this and it have just over 200 vote and a paltry 9 user comment write for it . it a shame on either score because although the production value scream out that this be a b movie western and this be a fine entry in the western genre . that the piece take on a rather standard plot theme of an harangued town turn to an avenge dark angel and probably hasn not do the film any favour over the year and i myself read the synopsis and think it just another in the line of similarly theme picture . yet i be pleasantly surprise to find a darkly dramatic picture boast many enjoyable moment and both technically and a a functioning story . robert mitchum be in the lead a tollinger and perfectly cast and he stride thru the picture like some brood menace . we often talk about the screen presence that john wayne and charlton heston have { justifiably of course } and mitchum be right up there with the best of them . one sequence here see him stand in the shadow at the back of a room a a meeting take place and we do not see his face and but we can feel that pierce brood star out at u . the rest of the cast be also very much in mitchum shadow and so really it solely with the big man that the film act credential be high and perhaps it unfair to single out ted de corsia for a kick and but man with the gun minor failing be with it villain and and sadly de corsia be lack any sort of villainesque menace . the score from alex north be excellently layer { fan of spartacus will certainly be prick their ear up } and the cinematography from lee garmes be highly impressive when one realise that the majority of this picture be shoot on the studio lot . direct and co write by first time director richard wilson and man with the gun hold few surprise for the genre and but it dark in tone and violent and above all else and highly watchable . 7 . 5/10 .