Finger on the Trigger

Finger on the Trigger (1965)

Keep Your Eye On The Indians And Your Finger On the Trigger!

At the end of the Civil War, a ragtag group of just-discharged Union soldiers clashes with a band of renegade Confederates over a golden treasure hidden in a deserted town in the Oklahoma Territory. Soon these rivals must make common cause in the face of an Indian attack.

Date of release
1965-03-22
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Western
Director
Sidney W. Pink

Casting

Interesting facts

Finger on the Trigger is a 1965 Western film directed by Sidney W. Pink and starring Rory Calhoun. It was distributed on VHS by Troma Entertainment.

Production

The film was financed off the back of the success of Lex Barker's Westerns. The script was written in 12 days. It was an Italian-Spanish co production.

The film was meant to star Victor Mature but he pulled out. Pink later sued Mature. He was paid $25,000. According to Sidney Pink, Mature went on a drunken bender when the actor arrived in London and missed the first three weeks of filming. Mature turned up and demanded to be paid his entire fee and the filmmakers refused. Mature was replaced with Rory Calhoun who shot all his scenes in eight days.

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