The Fastest Gun Alive was a pretty average black-and-white western of the period and it concludes with what must be one of the most feeble gunfights in cinema.

In what may be one of the first iterations of a true anti-Western, Glenn Ford plays a bundle-of-nerves quickdraw artist hiding out as a pacifist shopkeeper, driven by egotism and fear.

The film looks at the high cost of machismo in the Old West.

A superb psychological Western directed by Russell Rouse.