Angie – Gypsy (as Angelo Rosito) Ed East as Hank Joseph J. Greene as Mr. Gunther (as Joe Greene) Production and release Executive producer Robert L. Lippert allocated $100,000 to play the lead. Filming began August 20, 1949. Lippert spent $100,000 to promote the film. The film was shot in 15 days and a print is preserved by the Museum of Modern Art. The film marks one of the earliest credits for B-Movie director Ed Wood, who worked on stunts. Rudolph Grey's "Nightmare of Ecstasy" states that Ed Wood worked as a stunt double in drag and falls off a moving coach. Having watched the film, the only logical person for him to double for is Ellen Drew in a scene toward the end of the movie, where she and Price are dragged from their coach by an angry mob. Critical response Writing in AllMovie, critic Craig Butler praised the performances of Price and Drew, described the film as "a bizarre but intriguing little Western" with "unconvincing reversals and some sequences which come across as a tad farfetched," and concluded that "portions of the film drag in places due to forced exposition [but] the verve of the other sections makes up for it." Novelist and comic book writer Jamie S. Rich wrote in DVD Talk that in this film Fuller "struggl[ed] with melodramatic story structure" but "definitely has a better handle on his material and a stronger visual sense than he had on his first feature (I Shot Jesse James)," concluding that the film was a "middling effort." References External links on Criterion Collection 1950 films 1950 Western (genre) films 1950s historical films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American historical films Biographical films about people of the American Old West Films directed by Samuel Fuller Films scored by Paul Dunlap Films set in Arizona Films set in the 1870s Films set in the 1880s Films set in the 1890s Films set in the 1910s Lippert Pictures films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films