I was disappointed that Roger Corman's directorial debut was a pro-Confederate western, a dirty dozen type thing where the Confederates pardon some condemned criminals and send them to abduct a Southern intelligence officer defecting to the North.
I knew his first movie was a western, but I assumed it was Gunslinger, which would make sense since Five Guns West was much better-made.
Most of it took place in one location. The traitorous Confederates wait for the stage coach carrying the guy and some Confederate gold to show up.
Had a couple of Corman semi-regulars, Joanathan Haze and Mike "Touch" Conners.
With James Sikking, Dorothy Malone, John Lund and Jack Ingram.
John Lund had been posing as a fellow criminal, but later starts proclaiming himself a "Confederate officer", like this made him a paragon of virtue. And, I'm not sure if this was a surprise twist---if it was, it wasn't a very good one---he was Dorothy Malone's ex-boyfriend.
It had an Apache dressed like an Indian from an old Thanksgiving decoration.
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