Gunslinger

I think there’s an interesting historical note to be made here that has nothing to do with the film. Corman liked to tell the story of how he worked in Fox’s story department, offering notes on scripts, when he first started, and he quit Fox when he suggested a series of notes, all of which were accepted, for the Gregory Peck film, The Gunfighter. I wonder if Corman thought of the connection between the very similar titles as he rushed through the production on this. Maybe. I dunno.

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