| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Jerrold Freedman |
| Starring: | Louis Gossett Jr. Clu Gulager Mary Alice Barry Brown |
| Music: | Fred Karlin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Abby Mann |
| Producer: | Harry R. Sherman |
| Location: | Kentucky |
| Cinematography: | Tak Fujimoto |
| Editor: | John F. Link |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Company: | EMI Television Roger Gimbel Productions |
| Network: | NBC |
Lawman Without a Gun (also known as This Man Stands Alone) is a 1979 American made-for-television drama film starring Louis Gossett Jr., written and directed by Jerrold Freedman.[1]
A black man runs for the position of sheriff in a small town. This movie is about Dr. Rev. Thomas Earl Gilmore Sr. Raised in Forkland, Alabama and known as the “sheriff without a gun,” he became the first black sheriff of Greene County and the second black sheriff in the state of Alabama.[2] He died in 2015.[3]