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Gun Runner Reviews

1969
1 hr 16 mins
Action & Adventure
NR

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In this actioner, a government agent must stop a South American arms-smuggling operation that has been providing firearms to a fanatical sect in Texas. Along the way he meets a wanderer who helps the undercover agent join the gang. The drifter begins impersonating a sailor and meets a prostitute whose lover receives the smuggled arms. The sailor manages to hook up with the head smuggler. When he finds the agent stabbed and dying beneath a dock, the sailor realizes their whole cover is about to be blown. Still he helps the gun runner move the arms ashore; he then kills the ring leader and his gang, and blows up their ship. When he gets back on shore he finds that the hooker and her boyfriend have been killed. The wounded agent is very impressed with the drifter's good work and offers him more, but the drifter is disgusted by it all and wanders away.

Dickerson is a government agent who is pressured by bureau chiefs to put a stop a South American gun-running operation that is supplying weapons to a sect of fanatical Texans. He meets drifter Dolan and, with his help, infiltrates the gang. Masquerading as a sailor, Dolan meets Carbe, a hooker whose boy friend is one the recipients of guns provided by Rico. Eventually Dolan takes a job with Rico, but later discovers his government contact stabbed and near death beneath a pier. Warned that Rico is on to the sting, Dolan helps run the guns ashore, then kills Rico and his gang. After destroying the gun-bearing ship, Dolan returns, exhausted, to the beach, where he discovers Carbe and her boy friend murdered. Dickerson is pleased with Dolan's job and offers him more government work. Sick of it all, Dolan declines and wanders off once more. This less-than-fascinating film was shot by Nestor Almendros (under the pseudonym John Nestor) before he became one of Hollywood's leading cinematographers.