The Last Challenge (1967)

After serving five years in prison, a reformed outlaw (Glenn Ford) becomes the respected sheriff of a small town. But his reputation as the fastest gun in the west makes him the target for many a young gunfighter hoping to prove their trigger ability. Based on the novel PISTOLERO'S PROGRESS by John Sherry and directed by Richard Thorpe (IVANHOE). The tale of the young pup arriving in town to take down the older "fastest gun" is a westerns cliche. THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) is probably the best example of this western subgenre. Despite the cliche, this is a decent if slightly tired western, its bittersweet ending eschewing sentimentality. There is one ghastly racial stereotype that nearly topples the movie and that's a sequence of scalping Indians craving whiskey and getting dead drunk and passing out! With Angie Dickinson (better served in POINT BLANK which came out the same year), Chad Everett, Gary Merrill and Jack Elam.