夺金死囚团 (1955)
Five Guns West
南北战争已接近尾声，南军为了扭转颓势，孤注一掷地从死刑牢房里放出了五个穷凶极恶的罪犯。一名南军军官受命带领这支随时可能反水的“死囚小队”，穿越危险的无人区去截获一辆运送北方黄金的马车，并顺带清理掉队伍里的一个叛徒。这不仅是一场为了财富的掠夺，更是一场人性与忠诚的博弈——因为这五个家伙心里都很清楚，只要拿到金子，他们随时可以把枪口转向自己的长官。
演员阵容
- John Lund — Govern Sturges
- 多罗茜·马龙 — Shalee
- Mike Connors — Hale Clinton
- R·赖特·坎贝尔 — John Morgan Candy
- Jonathan Haze — William Parcell 'Billy' Candy
- Paul Birch — J.C. Haggard
- James Stone — Uncle Mike
- Jack Ingram — Stephen Jethro
- Larry Thor — Confederate Captain
- Jack Bohrer
- Boyd 'Red' Morgan — Hoagie (as Boyd Morgan)
- Lionel C. Place — (as Lionel Place)
趣闻
- 预算：US$6万
- 拍摄地：加利福尼亚州
Five Guns West is a 1955 Western film set during the American Civil War directed by Roger Corman. It was Corman's first film as director although he had already made two as producer. It was the second film released by the American Releasing Company, which later became American International Pictures.
Production
The film was the third movie produced by Roger Corman but the first one he directed, and his first movie in color. The second film he produced, The Fast and the Furious, had been bought for distribution by a newly formed company, American Releasing Corporation (ARC), headed by Sam Arkoff and James H. Nicholson.
Corman had directed second unit on The Fast and the Furious and decided to direct Five Guns West himself. This was announced in November 1954. Corman later said "the work by the directors on the two films I had produced was acceptable.
Female lead Dorothy Malone had been in The Fast and the Furious. This was her first film following the death of her younger brother. Malone had Battle Cry and Young at Heart awaiting release when she made the film. It was one of a series of Westerns featuring Malone. Corman said he paid her and John Lund "as much as I could afford". Touch Connors was cast shortly after Malone.
Corman said the story idea was his but the structure and script was the work of R. Wright Campbell, an actor he had met through Jonathan Haze. Campbell was paid $200 to write the script - it was his first screenplay - and was cast in a key role.
Prior to filming, Corman's directing experience was limited to doing second unit on The Fast and the Furious and observing film sets on the lot at 20th Century Fox. In order to get some practice before starting Five Guns West, he shot an 8-minute short film on 16 mm over one day with some actor friends. Corman says he never bothered having this film processed and edited.
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