Gunslinger (1956)

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• Filmado em: Califórnia

Gunslinger is a 1956 American Western film directed by Roger Corman and starring John Ireland, Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna and Charles B. Griffith.

Production

The screenplay for Gunslinger was written by Mark Hanna and Charles B. Griffith based on an idea by director Roger Corman, who proposed a Western film in which a sheriff is murdered while on duty, with the sheriff's widow inheriting the job. Griffith was hired after Jonathan Haze showed several of Griffith's screenplays to Corman.

Griffith had written two Westerns for Corman that had not been made. Griffith said: "He took me out to see Three Hours to Kill with Dana Andrews and said to me, 'I want you to do the same picture but with a woman as the sheriff'."

Corman later said, "I'm weary of prepackaged formulas, and when you try out a new idea, you necessarily think about shooting a hackneyed scene in a funny way without resorting to parody. This wasn't a parody, it was 'Good God, how can I find a different sort of gunslinger?' Right away, I thought of a woman gunslinger, and the idea for the script came to me all of a sudden. It was the sheriff's wife.

The film was originally known as The Yellow Rose of Texas.

Gunslinger began production on January 22, 1956. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the film studios had renegotiated for a five-day work week instead of six days, and Corman wished to film a low-budget Western in six days before the new contract took effect, with Gene Corman providing half of the financing.

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