man with the gun be pretty much forget now and but cause a minor storm of medium interest back in 1955 when robert mitchum turn down both jett rink in giant ( which have actually be write for him and which be subsequently substantially rework ) and charles laughton intend version of the naked and the dead to make it instead . despite some obvious production problem and some harsh lighting that occasionally render both mitch and jan sterling in unflattering tone and it a terrific dark western that more than stand comparison with his early blood on the moon a his town tamer set to work on a town that never have the chance to grow up before get run down by the local badmen before turn out to possibly be almost as bad a the men he dispatch . certainly his way of deal with news of a death in the family burn a saloon to the ground and goad it manager into try to kill him doesn not inspire much confidence in his stability . as well a a good script and a surprisingly good support turn from the usually irritate but here well cast henry hull and it also boast a strikingly good early alex north score and which even include an early workout for one of his tormented emotional cue that would later turn up in spartacus .