''Five Guns to Tombstone'' is a 1960 American Western film directed by

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and starring

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, John Wilder, Walter Coy, Robert Karnes and Della Sharman.

Plot

Young

outlaw An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill th ...

Billy Wade, determined to reform, is roped into a robbery by rich businessman George Landon then framed for it. Landon springs Billy's brother Matt from prison, on the condition he get Billy to go along with the theft. During a struggle for a gun Matt is accidentally killed, and his teenaged son Ted and others mistakenly believe Billy killed him in cold blood. Billy pretends to help bandit Ike Garvey but ultimately assists in his capture, earning Ted's forgiveness.

Cast

as Billy Wade * John Wilder as Ted Wade * Walter Coy as Ike Garvey * Robert Karnes as Matt Wade * Della Sharman as Arlene * Gregg Palmer as Mel Dixon * Willis Bouchey as George Landon * Joe Haworth as Hoke * Quentin Sondergaard as Hank *

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as Hoagie (as Boyd Morgan) * Jon Locke as Rusty Kolloway * John Eldredge as Endicott

Production

The film's plotline and lines duplicate those of an earlier

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production, '' Gun Belt'' (1953).

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* 1960 films 1960s English-language films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films 1960 Western (genre) films Films directed by Edward L. Cahn Films produced by Edward Small Films scored by Paul Sawtell 1960s American films Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer Films about outlaws {{1960s-Western-film-stub

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