George Montgomery

Yvonne De Carlo

Tab Hunter

Brian Donlevy

John Russell

Leo Gordon

Robert Emhardt

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

James Craig

Richard Arlen

Emile Meyer

Don 'Red' Barry

William Fawcett

Fuzzy Knight

Joe Brown

Jerry Catron

R.G. Springsteen

Steve Fisher

Sloan Nibley

James Edward Grant

John R. Carter

Ralph Axness

Jimmie Haskell

Lothrop B. Worth

Western

Hostile Guns

Paramount Pictures

A.C. Lyles Productions

United States of America

English

More tepid than hostile.

Not a great deal to write home about here, Hostile Guns is every inch a late 1960s Oater clinging on to the fading embers of a genre that was at the time moving in another direction. It's directed by R.G. Springsteen and co-written by Steve Fisher, Sloan Nibley and James Edward Grant. It stars George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell and Leo Gordon. Music is by Jimmie Haskell and the Techniscope/Technicolor photography is by Lothrop Worth.

Plot has Montgomery as Sheriff Gid McCool, who is tasked with escorting a wagon of prisoners through the plains. Tricky since one of the prisoners has cohorts desperate to break him free, while another one is an old flame!

Tab Hunter is in the cast to bring down the average age of the cast, many of whom are going through the motions and are clearly in it to pick up a late in their career pay cheque. It's very much indicative of an A.C. Lyles production, the mixture of airy location shooting and crude rear projection work is most disconcerting. Brian Donlevy is front page billed but is in the film for two minutes, while the stunt doubles are ridiculously evident - which via the splicing are actually insulting. On the plus side there's a nice print available which showcases the good use of colour, and Gordon provides some good grumpy villainy, but it all trundles towards the inevitable climax, which all things considered isn't worth the wait. 5/10

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