''Finger on the Trigger'' (also known as ''Blue Lightning'') is a 1965
Western
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film directed by
Sidney W. Pink
Sidney W. Pink was an American film producer and occasional director. He has been called the father of feature-length 3-D movies. He is also noted for producing early Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget science-fiction films, and for his role in act ...
and starring
Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He starred in numerous Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in supporting roles in films such as '' How to Marry a Milli ...
. It was distributed on VHS by
Troma Entertainment
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.
At the end of the
American Civil War
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, a group of discharged federal troops travel west to
California
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to settle the free land offered by the US Government to honorably discharged veterans. These veterans clash with a band of renegade Confederates in a deserted town in
Oklahoma
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.
Plot
Cast
Production
The film was meant to star
Victor Mature
Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who was a leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. His best known film roles include ''One Million B.C.'' (1940), '' My Darlin ...
but he pulled out. Pink later sued Mature.
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1965 films
1965 Western (genre) films
American independent films
Troma Entertainment films
American Western (genre) films
Spanish independent films
Spanish Western (genre) films
Allied Artists films
Films shot in Almería
Films directed by Sidney W. Pink
Films produced by Sidney W. Pink
1965 independent films
English-language Spanish films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
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