FIVE GUNS WEST is a western cheapie directed by Roger Corman; it just so happens to be his first movie. It shares many of the similarities with his other fare of the 1950s, with a brisk pacing, straightforward plotting, and a kind of leanness that works throughout. It was shot in nine days by all accounts, but you can't really tell. The story is a variant on the hostage scenario, with members of a stagecoach station held up by escaped convicts, and the usual twists are enough to sustain the narrative.
Review of Five Guns West
