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Top Gun (1955)
Rod Taylor plays trigger-happy Lem Sutter in this movie that is NOT the Tom
Cruise action film of the same name.
Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osborne called this "a nice little
Western," and it is -- with a few themes akin to Gary Cooper's "High
Noon."
Sterling Hayden starred as Rick Martin, a lone gunslinger who rides back
into his hometown (Casper, Wyo.) following the death of his mother. He also
has returned to deliver a warning: A band of renegades is poised to raid
the town.
Martin's friends are few, however, because he's widely suspected of murder.
The town's marshal and innkeeper seem to be on his side, and his old flame
is wavering.
Among Martin's other problems is the young, cocky Lem Sutter, whose trigger
finger is itchy.
Sutter challenges Martin repeatedly, yearning to outdraw the famed gunslinger
and become known as "Top Gun." When he finally gets his chance,
of course, Martin finishes out the rest of the movie. Sutter does not.
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