Five Guns West (1955)
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7% of users liked it
(53 ratings)
Five convicted outlaws, sentenced to hang, are recruited by a Confederate Army officer on what could easily be a suicide mission -- they're each given a full pardon in exchange for a quick ride through hostile Indian territory to Dawn Springs, Kansas, where their job is to stop a stagecoach… More Five convicted outlaws, sentenced to hang, are recruited by a Confederate Army officer on what could easily be a suicide mission -- they're each given a full pardon in exchange for a quick ride through hostile Indian territory to Dawn Springs, Kansas, where their job is to stop a stagecoach coming in from California. The coach is carrying Stephen Jethro, the head of intelligence for the Confederacy in California, who has sold out to the Union, and $30,000 in gold that Jethro was to use for espionage work on behalf of the south -- their job is to bring Jethro in alive if possible, but to stop him from reaching Union territory, and to bring the gold back to the Confederacy. But the temptation of that gold weighs on all of these men -- Hale Clinton (Touch Connors) and Govern Sturgess (John Lund) seem destined to fight it out to the death -- and the presence of Dorothy Malone at the Dawn Springs relief station doesn't help matters. Before it's over, there will be multiple double-crosses, one important partial redemption, and an ever growing list of casualties. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Corman
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 15, 1955 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Provocative Western.
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Cast
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John Lund
as Govem Sturgess
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Dorothy Malone
as Shalee
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Bob Campbell
as John Morgan Candy
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Jonathan Haze
as William Parcel Candy
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Paul Birch
as J.C. Haggard
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James F. Stone
as Uncle Mime
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Jack Ingram
as Stephen Jethro
- Jack Bohrer
- Lionel Place
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Jon Mikl Thor
as Southern Captain
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Touch (Mike) Connors
as Hale Clinton
- R. Wright Campbell
