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3'''''God's Gun''''' is a 1976 SpaghettiWestern starring Creator/LeeVanCleef and Creator/JackPalance.
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5One day, outlaw Sam Clayton and his gang attack a small Western town and kill a man. The local preacher, Father John, manages to capture one, but Clayton guns him down on the church steps before taking over the town. However, a young boy named Johnny O'Hara sneaks off to contact John's brother Lewis, a professional gunfighter, to seek vengeance. Meanwhile, secrets brew about Johnny's prior connections to Clayton...
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7It has been distributed in the US by Creator/TheCannonGroup, Creator/WarnerBros, Creator/{{MGM}} and Creator/MillCreekEntertainment.
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11* AgonyOfTheFeet: After cowing the judge into compliance, Sam Clayton stands on the judge's foot while forcing him to announce that Jess' murder of the gambler was self-defence.
12* AlliterativeTitle: '''G'''od's '''G'''un
13* BadassAndChildDuo: Lewis is summoned to town by a young boy named Johnny, who accompanies him on his vengeance quest.
14* BadassPreacher: Father John's response to a murder committed in his town and the law doing nothing is to hunt the gang down and personally drag one of them to jail. Unfortunately, this gets him killed.
15* BigBad: Sam Clayton, the {{Outlaw}} that killed Father John.
16* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: During their final showdown, Lewis shoots Clayton's gun out if his hand,then [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots it several more times while it is in the air]].
17* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Jenny rather ineffectively hits Jess Clayton with a chair when the Clayton Gang take over the saloon.
18* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Johnny thought his father was dead, but he was actually the product of a prior rape by Sam Clayton.]]
19* ChristianityIsCatholic: Despite the much greater likelihood of an Old West preacher being Protestant, Father John is in fact Catholic.
20* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: The Claytons force the town judge to rule their killing of Father John as self-defense.
21* CrapsackWorld: The Old West is a desolate desert where one can go days without food or water just trying to pass through town, gangs of outlaws roam the streets, and the law is enforced by morons.
22* CutPhoneLines: After TakingOverTheTown, the Clayton Gang destroy the telegraph lines so no one in Juno City can contact the outside world for help.
23* DecoyProtagonist: We start the film following BadassPreacher Father John's battles against a gang of outlaws, but he's killed a half hour in, after which his gunslinger brother Lewis shows up to get revenge.
24* DisguisedHostageGambit: Jess and Zeke shoot what they think id Father John standing in the church, only to discover it a member of their own gang whom Lewis has dressed in Father John's cassock and hat.
25* GamblingBrawl: Lewis decided to become a RetiredGunfighter after he shot a man he caught cheating in a gambling game in Abilene, which led to him to killing three other men in a gunfight.
26* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Johnny's mother reveals to Sam that Johnny is his son from having raped her years ago.]]
27* NoHonorAmongThieves: Several of the Clayton Gang decide to quit after Johnny escapes Juno City, worried that he is going to bring back the USMarshal. Sam Clayton gives them their share of the gang's loot and escorts them to the Mexican border. He leaves them,then doubles back and kills all of them and takes back the money.
28* OutfitDecoy: Lewis and Johnny hang Father John's cassock and hat on a candelabra; tricking two of the Clayton Gang into emptying their revolvers into it.
29* {{Outlaw}}: The main antagonists are a criminal gang who have taken over a town.
30* PoliceAreUseless: The local sheriff is an alcoholic who actively refuses to go after the Claytons.
31* PredecessorVillain: Long before the start of the film, Lewis took down a corrupt gambler and the thugs who went after him in revenge. They had nothing to do with the Claytons and are long dead by film's end.
32* RailingKill: The first member of the Clayton Gang to die in Lewis' RoaringRampageOfRevenge is startled by Lewis' appearance on the roof--thinking him to be the priest's ghost--and falls trough the railing on the saloon roof to his death.
33* RetiredBadass: Lewis has hung up his guns and become a farmer in Mexico by film's start. However, he takes up gunslinging one more time to avenge his brother's murder.
34* RetiredGunfighter: Lewis has hung up his guns and become a farmer in Mexico by film's start. However, he takes up gunslinging one more time to avenge his brother's murder.
35* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: A gunfighter returns to his hometown to slaughter the outlaws that killed his preacher brother.
36* SaloonOwner: Jenny owns the Jenny Saloon;the only watering hole in Juno City. The number of scantily clad saloon girls she employs implies she mighty be a MissKitty as well (although she insists she runs a 'respectable place').
37* SameLanguageDub: Creator/RichardBoone was dubbed by another actor. He already had health problems, and after a drunken argument he walked off the set, and left the location before he had recorded all his dialog.
38* ScarecrowSolution: When Lewis starts his vengeance quest, he dons his twin brother's cassock and hat so that the Claytons think it's his ghost.
39* SerialRapist: The Claytons each rape at least one woman in every town they ride through.
40* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: During the final showdown, [[spoiler:Sam Clayton thrusts his hand into a money bag he has hanging on a grave marker. Lewis thinks he he is reaching for a gun he has hidden in there and shoots him. It turns out Sam was pulling out a handful of banknotes in an attempt to bribe Lewis.]]
41* TheSpeechless: Johnny is struck dumb after seeing Father John gunned down by the Clayton Gang in front of his eyes.
42* SpitTake: Johnny sneaks a glass of communion wine while Father John isn't looking, only to spit out as soon as the taste hits him.
43* TakingOverTheTown: Sam Clayton and his gang attack a small Western town and kill a man. The local preacher, Father John, manages to capture one, but Clayton guns him down on the church steps before taking over the town.
44* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Johnny is able to overcome his hysterical muteness and yell out a BigNo when he thinks Clayton is reaching for a hidden gun to shoot Lewis.
45* TwangHello: When Johnny tries to run from the saloon to fetch the sheriff, Jess Clayton throws a knife into the door beside his head; stopping him in his tracks.
46* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: When Jess Clayton murders the gambler in the saloon, SaloonOwner Jenny grabs a double-barreled shotgun from behind the bar and comes out to try to take Jess to the sheriff. Unfortunately, Sam Clayton takes it off her.
47* VillainOpeningScene: The Clayton Gang riding into town guns blazing as their leader rapes a woman.

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