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There are several Civil War Westerns where a stagecoach full of gold is robbed. I hope you can identify this film that I saw around 1956: the Confederacy freed several prisoners to rob a Union stagecoach but secretly planted a nonprisoner to keep a eye on the ex-prisoners.

It appears you remember “Five Guns West” from 1955. It starred John Lund, Dorothy Malone and Mike Connors (then billed as Touch Conners).

It also was the directing debut of Roger Corman, who would become a Hollywood legend. He was a director and producer of independent films, made “at frantic speed with skimpy resources,” as the critic David Thomson put it. Focusing on those resources on money-making ideas, he was especially adept at drive-in fare; Corman’s resume includes titl

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