Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Aedonerre
I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
mryerson
This is not a B movie, it's a b movie. Veterans Robert Lowery and Marie Windsor must have cringed every time they saw this 'vehicle' scheduled on the late, late, late show. This one screams 'cheese' from the opening credits. Ed Wood move over. Super cheap, nearly non-existent production values, somnambulistic direction and editing, canned music and shop worn props, all in slightly overexposed black-and-white. The plot, such as it is, deals with a revenge tale of gunslinger/trick shot artist Peggy Castle (here artfully utilizing both of her facial expressions; angry and more-angry), snarling her way through assorted heavies, hunting for the baddies who killed her parents and burned down the family homestead. She meets up with somewhat undercover Federal Marshal William Talman, and they grudgingly form a tepid bond which is meant to pass for an adult relationship but plays here more like the director (Richard Bartlett, in a bravura performance) didn't want to monkey around with all that lovey-dovey stuff. Don't want to give away the WOW ending but don't miss Marie Windsor's unscheduled appearance in one scene, simply walking onto a hot set and then visibly realising what she'd done, flouncing out again as though she forgot something or Lowery's hesitant, sleepy delivery of his lines in the 'face-off in the barroom' scene, he seems to be pausing for effect, and pausing and pausing, but what I think was really going on was he couldn't believe his career had come to this and wanted future film students to savor the beyond-atrocious dialogue. That Windsor's literal misstep and Lowery's near-trancelike delivery weren't edited out and both appear in the final cut, says all you need to know about Two-Gun Lady. And just think, these people got paid for this thing. I hope none of them took the points.
westerner357
Ok it's not JOHNNY GUITAR (1954), but so what? I like it, anyway.An Annie Oakley-type trick-shot artist named Kate Masters (Peggy Castle) comes into town to put on a show at the local saloon. She also let's a couple of fresh rednecks know that she's not about to be pushed around by pulling a gun on them. A local drifter Dan Corbin (William Tallman) isn't too impressed with what's happening and he shoots up a poster of Master's show.But no matter. The real reason Master's is in town is she's looking for the ones who killed her father and burned down their farm when she was a little girl. She knows who did it and she reluctantly enlists the help of Corbin, who it turns out is a federal marshal who's been after the same people Masters been after, for a long time now. It's a local family, the Ivers, who aren't too friendly with their neighbors and have been suspected of cattle rustling.The ending quick-draw in the saloon between Ben Ivers (Earle Lyon) and Master's is a real hoot! She's pretty quick, although not quick enough not to get wounded in the draw. Ben in turn gets it with a rifle from his kid sister Jenny Ivers (Barbara Turner) who was angry at him for abusing her and shooting her lamb. Good thing she did him in, too. He was a real scumbag.
Also notable for having my favorite 50s B movie scream queen Marie Windsor as the local saloon gal who has a big mouth and gets punished (permanently) for it. Her part in this film raises it up a couple of notches for me. I always enjoy seeing her up there on the silver screen, no matter how lousy the film is.Even though this was made by a little B movie outfit AFRC, it has no more of a cheap look than many of those oaters Republic, PRC or even bigger studios like RKO & Columbia put out in the late 40s, early 50s.6 out of 10 for keeping me enthused.
Michael O'Keefe
Even calling this a B movie is stretching it some. Typical dusty western about a young woman(Peggie Castle)who happens to be a very good shot with both pistol and rifle putting on shooting demonstrations while she hunts down her parents murderer. Has all the appearances of being a low budget "quickie". One character(Marie Windsor) accidentally walks into a scene she wasn't suppose to. She leaves as quick as she enters. The same character later awkwardly tries to wrestle a pistol from a bad man. Also in the cast are:William Talman and Robert Lowery.
VernC
Amazing what will make it into release sometimes. This one ranks with anything that Ed Wood ever put together. Marie Windsor walked into a shot that she was not in and scurried off. It's in the finished film. Even the usually reliable B stalwart Robert Lowery comes off like an amateur. Fun to see in a theater full of college students.