No Name on the Bullet No Name on the Bullet

Cool, cultured John Gant rides into Lordsburg. Gant is a professional killer, and although no one knows who he is there to kill, they are all worried. Everyone has enemies, and maybe Gant is in town for them. While they wait for him to make his move, paranoia starts taking over... Written by Ken Yousten John Gant, hired assassin rides into town. No one is sure of the identity of his intended victim. Townsfolk have shady pasts that make each one believe that John Gant is there to kill them. While each townsperson is falling apart from guilt, Gant is waiting in the hotel but is still given the blame for the shootings and the suicide of the Banker. Written by Carol Johnson

Audie Murphy Charles Drake Joan Evans Virginia Grey Warren Stevens R.G. Armstrong Willis Bouchey Edgar Stehli Simon Scott Karl Swenson Whit Bissell Charles Watts John Alderson Jerry Paris Russ Bender

Universal International Pictures (UI)

thriller action western

77 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Antares

    Review by Antares ★★★½

    When you think of the great stars of the western genre, you think of the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott and Clint Eastwood. Lost amidst these stalwarts of sagebrush cinema is a rather diminutive player who also carved out quite a nice career... Audie Murphy. You can never confuse his talents with those of the men I mentioned, but he did bring his own style and flair to the films he was in, especially when he was in his prime. I had seen some of his early efforts and they could best be described as wooden and lacking screen presence, but by the early fifties, he was starting to get it. He would never be…

  • Levi Harrison

    Review by Levi Harrison

    Just watched NO NAME ON THE BULLET, directed by Jack Arnold. This is a western starring Audie Murphy as a hired killer with a bad reputation.; he rides into town one day, and the entire town gets so wound up and paranoid that they nearly tear each other apart. I normally don't like westerns, but this movie immediately struck me as a great paranoia-movie, sorta like Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The third act of the movie returns to the formula of just being a standard western, however, ruining what started out as a great concept. Audie Murphy makes a good villain, not because he seems sinister, but because he seems nice and normal.