Palo Alto Productions
Director: Roger Corman (The guy who recently produced Dinocroc vs. Supergator no less)
Five Guns West suprisingly has it all! Here's the story. The South (CSA you know) needs to stop a traitor to the cause in charge of 30,000 in gold traveling by stagecoach but they don't have the manpower and so they pardon five criminals to go do it for them. I know, at first you were thinking "here we go again with another dig at the CSA" but it turns out to be a fair take on the war. Anyways back to the film. Somehow all the right parts of the western genre are there and even with a film about criminals, the good guy gets the girl (in this case Dorothy Malone)! Considering this was only Corman's second film, Five Guns West is a classic. You do have to overlook a particularly bad "crazy man" scene with Jonathan Haze(yes, Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors). Two other big names for the film are John Lund as Govern Sturges and Mike Connors as Hale Clinton; both play two of the "Five Guns." Finally, I would like to note there is a snake slaughtering/assumed assault scene (I am keeping my eyes out for this as I have seen it a couple times before). Definitely watch this one!
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