Day of the Evil Gun (1968)

Director
Jerry Thorpe

Main cast
Glenn Ford; Arthur Kennedy; Dean Jagger; Harry Dean Stanton; John Anderson

Genres
Action, Western

Description
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!


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