Critical reception įilm critic Roger Ebert was harsh in his criticism of the film, writing, 'The movie opens with a long-winded narration, in a hapless attempt to orient us, but not long afterward the narrator has to break in again-we're lost already. The director was Tom Laughlin, but officially the director credited was his son Frank (in 1975 he was 9).
The hero is the now-estranged adoptive son Finley (Tom Laughlin), a master swordsman and gunfighter, who tries to prevent this while still saving his family. To prevent themselves from being caught, they plan to massacre the local Chumash Indians. government ship carrying gold so that it will be wrecked and plundered. Wealthy Latino ranchers whose land and wealth are at risk decide to misdirect a U.S.
government discriminated against the Mexican landowners and frequently took their land by force or legal skullduggery. In 1836 in southern California near Santa Barbara shortly after California became part of the United States, American settlers and the U.S. 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. The Master Gunfighter is a film released in 1975 in Panavision, written and produced by Tom Laughlin, who also played the lead as Finley.
