A word about the ending......(spoile rs ahead)

you're retarded

your ending wouldn't work....because if he was fAKING his dealth.
why at the funeral would the wife and son reveil to everbody that she is the wife of the netorious killer jimmy ringo???(or does the sheriff not tell her that jimmy was just faking)????????????but i'm pretty sure that in the old west some out-laws did get away with faking thier own dealths???some say jesse james may have done it!!!!!!!

Hmm. It's been about three years since I saw it.

I've forgotten if there was a funeral scene. I thought the ending was the 'kid' riding off, and that it was the same night.

The reasons I agree is:

1) I can't think of any reason why he would not fake his death if he wanted to.
Anything that made the death more believable might help, so he might not bring anyone into the conspiracy that didn't need to be there. He'd want the schoolmarm to cry her eyes out and she might not do it if she was told (as another reply suggested.)

2) I just plain want to agree. In the years since I saw it, I've really wanted to figure out a way for him to get out of there and live a normal life.

(I can tell you that my wife and I were hooked on this film within ten seconds of its start -- we were going to turn it off, then we taped it to 'watch it later', but still sat glued to the sofa for the whole 86 minutes, late late late at night. And that is unique, we've never done that before or since.)

I like to watch westerns on Saturday and Sunday mornings with my kids and we were lucky to chance upon The Gunfighter on EWSTN today. I really like this idea of Jimmy faking his death. I thought at the end it was the spirit of Ringo riding off into the sunset. What I mean by spirit is the idea of the gunfighters of the old west not his spirit. I will go with your idea because it makes the ending more palitable. I was sad that Jimmy was murdered at the end. Sad for him, his wife, his kid and all his friends. I will now think of Jimmy on some nice ranch in California or Oregon living out his years with his family and bouncing his grandkids on his knee as he relates the stories of his days in the old west and they listen with awe. Don't think of Jimmy as a bad man but as a man that, as he said to the ladies, had to kill because it was either him or them. I give this movie a 10 and will tell everyone I know to look for it and watch it.

Unfortunately, Ringo was doomed to die a violent death, because of the "sins" he committed. He brought it upon himself. His wife understands this and trys to tell him this, but Ringo has dreams of changing and starting a new life.

Ringo even tells the sherrif -- who had earlier ridden with him as an outlaw -- that he wished he had taken the opportunity to "keep riding" after one of their early heists, change his name, and make a new life for himself -- as the sherrif had done.

But, Ringo was seduced by the glamor of being a famous outlaw. Therefore, he was doomed to pay the price.

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