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The Legend of the Golden Gun

The Legend of the Golden Gun
Genre Fantasy
Western
Written by James D. Parriott
Directed by Alan J. Levi
Starring Jeff Osterhage
Hal Holbrook
Carl Franklin
Robert Davi
Theme music composer Jerrold Immel
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Harve Bennett
Harris Katleman
Producer(s) B. W. Sandefur
Dean Zanetos (associate producer)
James D. Parriott (supervising producer)
Location(s) Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California
Cinematography Gerald Perry Finnerman
Editor(s) Robert F. Shugrue
Running time 100 minutes
Production company(s) Bennett/Katleman Productions
Columbia Pictures Television
Distributor NBC
Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
Release
Original network NBC
Original release
  • April 10, 1979 (1979-04-10)

The Legend of the Golden Gun is a 1979 television Western film, starring Jeff Osterhage, Hal Holbrook, Carl Franklin, and Robert Davi

John Golden, young farmer and Joshua Brown, a bible-quoting runaway slave, team up to track down the legendary Confederate guerrilla William Quantrill. On their journey the meet a legendary gunfighter named J.R. Swackhammer, who teaches the young farmer how to shoot and gives him a special gun that shoots seven rounds, the seventh which he must use to fight evil.

"The Legend of the Golden Gun" was released on DVD on December 4, 2012 and still is available to order at Amazon.com and at tcm.com


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