The Master Gunfighter

The Master Gunfighter
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTom Laughlin
Written byTom Laughlin
Screenplay byHarold Lapland
Based onGoyokin
1969 film
by Hideo Gosha
Kei Tasaka
Produced byPhilip L. Parslow
StarringTom Laughlin
Ron O'Neal
Barbara Carrera
Narrated byBurgess Meredith
CinematographyJack A. Marta
Edited byDanford B. Greene
William Reynolds
Music byLalo Schifrin
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • October 3, 1975 (1975-10-03) (United States)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.5-3.8 million[1]
Box office$1.8 million[2]

The Master Gunfighter is a Western film released in 1975 in Panavision, written and produced by Tom Laughlin, who also played the lead as Finley. The Master Gunfighter is mainly a remake of the 1969 Japanese film Goyokin, although the story revolves around a true incident in the early 1800s involving massacred Indians that occurred in the vicinity of Goleta, California.

  1. ^ "The Master Gunfighter (1975)". AFI. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  2. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 296. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada