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Five Guns West (1955)
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Five Guns West (1955, USA, Roge ...
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"If Roger Corman had quit directing after his first film and become an industrial engineer (what he studied at college), Five Guns West would not be remembered at all, a completely obscure b-movie with no stars, a forgettable script and somewhat sloppy filmmaking. But Corman would later come to be thought of a real artist despite his home at American International Pictures, so some of the directors fans will be intrigued at check out this movie. They will find a work by a director who was just learning his trade, and without much inspiration. The only thing that's distinguishable about this picture at all is its surprising level of sleaze and violence (for 1955). The story involves a group five convicts spared from the death penalty by the Confederate government near the end of the Civil War, because there is a desperate mission they don't want to spare anyone else to go on. A Southern spy named Jethro (Jack Ingram) has defected to the north with a chest of $5,000 worth of gold, ... "
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