Gunslinger (film)

Gunslinger is a 1956 American western film starring Beverly Garland as Rose Hood, the widow of a slain town sheriff who inherits his job. Directed by Roger Corman from a screenplay by Mark Hanna and Charles B. Griffith, the film also features Allison Hayes as Erica Page, the owner of a saloon, who hires an assassin John Ireland to kill Rose.

After her husband Scott William Schallert, the sheriff of Oracle, is killed by two assailants, his widow Rose Beverly Garland is named temporary sheriff. That night, Rose asks Erica Page Allison Hayes if she can close her saloon in accordance with town regulations. The women fight, but eventually Erica closes for the night. After Rose exits, Erica tells lackey Jake Jonathan Haze to hire a killer, which he does, finding a man named Cane Miro John Ireland. As Cane enters town, Rose shoots at him, mistaking him for a man she has been searching out. She apologizes. Cane tells Rose that he is going to Oracle to see town mayor Gideon Polk Martin Kingsley.Cane enters Ericas saloon, where Polk has been telling her that she has overextended herself by buying property along a proposed railroad track. Cane confronts him until Erica requests he stop. Erica reveals that Rose is the woman who she paid Cane to kill however, if the proposed railroad track is a success, she admits that Rose may not have to die. ........

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