Wow! Such a good movie.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG! The Rifleman! *Lucas McCain Does some fancy movements with his gun.* Starring Chuck Connors! Is there anything else that is needed to make this intro want you to watch the show that proceeds it? Absolutely not. Just seeing those few seconds of Connors firing off a rifle is enough to suck you into this classic western.In The Rifleman, Chuck Connors portrays Widowed Settler Lucas McCain, a Cowboy living the basic old-style life and by raising his son, mark. throughout the series, Lucas deals with many different hombres and criminals, but yet always brings them to justice, and at the same time teaching his young son morals and lessons that viewers could learn a thing or two from.It's amazing how politicians and Conservative TV nuts will slam video games and modern TV for the violence in our world. But really, where did that inspiration come from? You guessed it, Classic violence in TV like the Rifleman. The only difference is that modern TV won't teach you a lesson or give the protagonist a fair reason to be violent.Overall, I give Rifleman a 10/10

I grew up with "The Rifleman" and rediscovered it on "retro TV" just recently. It's odd, sometimes in your later years you rediscover things from your childhood and wonder "what was I thinking?" Not the case here, the show is even better than I remember; just great acting by Chuck Connors, Paul Fix, Johnny Crawford (Emmy nominated best supporting actor), and the impressive array of guest stars. I can just imagine 'liberal' moms of today shunning the show as "too violent" and the "wrong message". But in fact, practically every show had a lesson in 'right and wrong', and a warmth you could feel in the interaction between the main characters. I'm sure back when, every boy in America wished he were Mark McCain. As I see the episodes now, I realize you really have to pay attention. You expect a handful of "but Pa!(s)" and the 'bad guys' getting it in the end, but the plots twist and turn and can get quite involved considering the era of the show's heyday. The show's simple premise was capable of telling interesting and occasionally historic stories with some eclectic characters. This unheralded gem is pure Americana, and it sad that this type of family entertainment has evaporated only to be replaced with "poison" (as Madona calls it) on America's living room screens. So much for progress.

Back in the day when I was a lad, I remember you could get a toy replica of the rifle that Chuck Connors used in The Rifleman. For those of you who don't remember it was called the Flip Special. As the show was popular so was the toy gun.Come to think of it Chuck Connors invented the automatic weapon before anyone else did. Instead of a standard trigger, Connors had that exaggerated big ring to cock the weapon and fire repeatedly at the same time. He was pretty deadly with it too.But Connors as Lucas McCain wanted to forget his hell-raising past, he was interested in settling down as a single father with his son, Johnny Crawford who grew into his young teen years during the show's run. The only other regular on the show was Marshal Paul Fix who seemed to get in a fix and needed Connors and his rifle to help preserve law and order in the town of North Fort.What made the The Rifleman special was Chuck Connors and his strong presence as a father to young Crawford. This was the western frontier and not Fifties suburbia in which Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley raised the Beaver and Wally. He was a single dad that dad's could identify with and emulate. Connors and Crawford were something special on the small screen.Several women came and went in Lucas McCain's life, but when the show's run ended he was still a widower. As a show The Rifleman had good values and lots of action. Who could ask for more.

I always liked this show. I was born a long time after this show went off, but I grew up watching shows like this, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, The Andy Griffith Show, Dragnet, etc., because we had Cable. Sure, the show became sort of predictable after a while, but even if you know what is going to happen, and you are like me, you are always on the edge of your seat, even if you have seen the episode a thousand times before. But I did not like the episodes that were either silly or had something pointless happen in them, such as Knight Errant. I also wish it would have not been called off the air, because it would eventually have turned to color, and I would have LOVED to see this show in "vivid Technicolor". I do like the idea though, of Lucas getting in trouble and/or trapped, and either Micah, Mark, Milly, Hattie, (and, of course, the Rifle) getting captured, and Lucas somehow getting free, and getting them back. I have to admit it was sort of weird to watch Connors in Big Country, as a badguy, and then to turn around and watch The Rifleman. This same reason makes it also weird, but a whole lot more so, to watch the episode "Deadly Image".