The Shooter
Film poster
Directed by	Fred Olen Ray (as Ed Raymond)
Written by	Tony Giglio
Produced by	Ashok Amritraj Andrew Stevens
Starring	Michael Dudikoff Randy Travis Valerie Wildman Eric Lawson Robert Donavan William Smith Andrew Stevens
Narrated by	Andrew Stevens
Cinematography	Gary Graver
Edited by	Brett Hedlund
Music by	Deeji Mincey Boris Zelkin
Release date	1997 (1997)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Shooter (also known as Deadly Shooter^[1] and Desert Shooter)^[2] is a 1997 American Western film directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as Ed Raymond) and starring Michael Dudikoff.^[3]

Plot

Michael Atherton stands up to the unfriendly and controlling family that runs the small, western town he lives in and ends up unheroically beaten up and left for dead. By luck, he is saved by a prostitute attacked by the same group of desperados.

Cast

• Michael Dudikoff as Michael Atherton
• Randy Travis as Kyle Tapert
• Valerie Wildman as Wendy
• Andrew Stevens as Jacob Finch / Narrator
• William Smith as Jerry Krants
• Robert Donavan as Mayor Pete Sayers
• Eric Lawson as Paul
• Hoke Howell as Duncan
• Libby George as Gina
• Cal Bartlett as Sheriff

Reception

Despite no Rotten Tomatoes approval rating and a Want-To-See score of 29%, The Shooter received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Karina Montgomery of "rec.arts.movies.reviews" called it "a meat and potatoes kind of film, a good time. You can find plot holes, but to comment on them would be petty in light of the rest of the film's merits working with them." Super Reviewer Brody Manson said "I was NOT expecting to like this western as much as I did but It had that old school western feel and it was action packed from start to finish."^{[citation needed]}