Nicholas Meriwether (aka Arch Hall Sr.) produced this anachronistic 1965 western as a starring vehicle for son Arch, Jr., who portrays Billy May (not the trumpeter), a cowpoke who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. That place is Deadwood, South Dakota, site of a major gold rush and final resting place of Wild Bill Hickok (portrayed here by Richard Dix's son Robert from Forbidden Planet). Also with lascivious Liz Renay (John Waters' Desperate Living), Jack Lester (Albert Peckingpaw from Jennie: Wife/Child), Read Octaman Morgan, John "Bud" Cardos (Satan's Sadists), and Arch Sr. himself. Direction was by Hall family associate James Landis, whose finest moment was undoubtedly The Sadist (1963). Filmed on location in South Dakota's Black Hills.
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