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      Gunslinger

      1956 1h 17m Western List
      Reviews 8% Audience Score 500+ Ratings When her marshal husband is murdered, Rose Hood (Beverly Garland) slides on his holster and takes his dangerous duty. This riles local brothel madam Erica Page (Allison Hayes), so she employs Cane Miro (John Ireland), a hired gun with an axe to grind, to bring an end to Hood and her brand of justice. When Miro meets Hood, though, he is struck by her strength and beauty. Still, the passion that begins to burn between them will not prevent their inevitable showdown. Read More Read Less

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      Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jun 13, 2005 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Not your typical B Western. Rated: B- Dec 14, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The first script by Mark Hanna (The Amazing Colossal Man) and the second from Charles B. Griffith (Death Race 2000), Gunslinger is one of the few times that director Roger Corman found himself going over schedule. Corman may have claimed that Gunslinger could have bee "one of the worst experiences of my life" and Allison Hayes may have wanted to leave the film during shooting — she broke her arm slipping in mud and Corman still shot close-ups while she was waiting for the ambulance, but at least star Beverly Garland enjoyed herself. In the book Beverly Garland: Her Life and Career, she said, "I think I was the first woman to play a marshal in a movie western. Roger would often cast against type in those days. I could never resist a plum role like a lady marshal in a genre that would never have considered such a gender reversal like that before." She played Rose Hood, who has become the marshall of Oracle, Texas after her husband is killed. Erica Page (Allison Hayes), the owner of a saloon — man, this town was woke early — gets into a fight with our heroine because she doesn't want to close at 3 AM. To get back at her, Erica hires a killer to murder the temporary marshall. Seriously, this movie totally goes wild by the end with nearly every character killed off. Corman said, "My Texas distributor arrived in the city where I was filming and asked me how it was going. I told him that I thought that it was good but that there was too much violence and passion, and he answered, "Roger, I've been in this business for forty years, and you've been in it for just two. Let me tell you that no one has ever made a film with too much passion and violence." So I pressed on. Everyone was dying. At the end of the film half of the city was dead." Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Guns linger, but your attention doesn't with this one trick pony. Cannonical scale: 2/5 — as Joel says, "Man, this movie is just sitting on my head and crushing it." Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review william k Unusual and interesting, but not really good Western sets a tough woman in its center. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Watching some of the old MST3K episodes available for streaming on Hulu and Netflix (there is a different random selection on each platform). Whether it is Joel or Mike watching these awful movies with the bots I do not envy their torture. Their snarky comments add some entertainment value, but my ratings are based on the movie's quality itself and not the commentary broadcast from the satellite of love. Promising concept of a woman taking her dead husband's Marshal badge and taking the reigns of law and order for the town in this Roger Corman flick. Unfortunately it is as dull and full of stereotypes as television westerns of the era. The plot is convoluted, but the terrible dialogue does a poor job of making the various threads clear. This did not hold my interest. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member I happened to catch the MST3L version of this,and for what that;s worth, the sarcasm made it somewhat watchable, but as with a lot of these older turkeys, I can't imagine sitting through them without something to distract you. Rental? Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member The set-up offers some promise for this film that turns around gender roles well, but the follow up is pretty flat. Roger Corman was better with his science fiction b-movies. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis When her marshal husband is murdered, Rose Hood (Beverly Garland) slides on his holster and takes his dangerous duty. This riles local brothel madam Erica Page (Allison Hayes), so she employs Cane Miro (John Ireland), a hired gun with an axe to grind, to bring an end to Hood and her brand of justice. When Miro meets Hood, though, he is struck by her strength and beauty. Still, the passion that begins to burn between them will not prevent their inevitable showdown.
      Director
      Roger Corman
      Screenwriter
      Charles B. Griffith, Mark Hanna
      Production Co
      EuroVideo
      Genre
      Western
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Oct 22, 2013
      Runtime
      1h 17m
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