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Release Date: 1969 Cast: Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, Carolyn Jones, Glenn Ford
Categories: Movies, Western, Action Heaven with a Gun is a 1969 western film starring Glenn Ford as Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path. Barbara Hershey plays Leloopa, an American Indian girl who looks up to Killian, and who becomes a target of opportunity for one of the cow hands, Coke Beck (played by David Carradine). Coke Beck happens to be the son of cattle rancher Asa Beck, and when Coke is shot down, the cattlemen blame preacher Killian.
As Madge McCloud, whiskey-drinking... MORE
Heaven with a Gun is a 1969 western film starring Glenn Ford as Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path. Barbara Hershey plays Leloopa, an American Indian girl who looks up to Killian, and who becomes a target of opportunity for one of the cow hands, Coke Beck (played by David Carradine). Coke Beck happens to be the son of cattle rancher Asa Beck, and when Coke is shot down, the cattlemen blame preacher Killian.
As Madge McCloud, whiskey-drinking madam of the town's saloon and brothel, Carolyn Jones acts as Killian's conscience. After a gunslinger working for the cattlemen tries to kill Killian and four cowhands burn the church, Killian straps on his gun and prepares to act alone. Madge tells him that he must make a decision to be either a gunman or a preacher — he must choose between heaven and hell, else he risks the trust of the community. She tells him that trying to be both is a worse sort of hell. But there's a pending showdown between the cattlemen and the sheepherders over water rights, and somehow Killian must be in the middle of LESS
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