Gunslinger

John Chard

2014-09-25

⭐ 3.5

The Gunsligerette Gunslinger is directed by Roger Corman and written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna. It stars John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Martin Kingsley, Jonathahn Haze and Chris Alcaide. Music is by Ronald Stein and cinematography by Frederick E. West. When the sheriff of Oracle, Texas, is murdered by outlaws, his widow Rose Hood (Garland) takes over as Marshal and sets about cleaning up the town... As Roger Corman started out directing, a few years before he would turn his hand to the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations that would find him respect and leave his mar…

Wuchak

2022-01-01

⭐ 7

_**When the town marshal is better-looking than the saloon girls**_ After her lawman husband is murdered in Oracle, Texas, Rose Hood (Beverly Garland) takes over the job of marshal to track down those behind the slaying. Meanwhile the saloon owner (Allison Hayes) wastes no time in hiring a hitman to take her out (John Ireland). "Gunslinger" (1956) is the sixth film directed by trailblazing Indie filmmaker Roger Corman (his seventh if you count his uncredited work on “The Beast with a Million Eyes”). Like his debut flick from the year prior, “Five Guns West,” it’s a quickie B Western sh…