Gunslinger is a 1956 western directed by Roger Corman. The film stars John Ireland, Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes. It was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film was shot just outside Kanab, UT. The set still stands today.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Version
Gunslinger was featured as a fifth season episode of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. As boasted by series villain, Dr. Clayton Forrester, this was the series’ first western. As with many episodes, Joel Robinson and his robot companions, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, constantly ragged on many of the mistakes the movie had made.
Of the mistakes, one of them was the bad placement of character locations (they also nag on time framing, but that just may be part of the riffs). This was shown as one character walking in from one building, but coming out of a completely different building altogether. Tom makes fun of this in one of the sketches as he is shown to be able to bounce from one end of the Satellite of Love’s bridge to another almost instantly. Crow derides this, claiming it makes “you fat and lazy”, only to take it back when Tom seemingly manipulates time, bringing them back to the beginning of the skit and restoring Crow’s sandwich.
Another mistake that was constantly a target for riffing was the placement of the door leading into Kain’s room. Because of the placement having the door swing towards the person and not into the room lead Joel and the Bots to believe that Kain was living in the hallway, something constantly ragged on in subsequent scenes.
