Still from THE PHANTOM GUNSLINGER

Theatrical Catalog / Cult

THE PHANTOM GUNSLINGER

Acclaimed producer Albert Zugsmith (TOUCH OF EVIL, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, Russ Meyer’s FANNY HILL) crafted some of the strangest and most unlikely exploitation films of the ‘60s.

Zugsmith’s mind-numbing blend of surrealism and slapstick comedy done as a self-aware westerns parody stars Troy Donohue as Phil P. Phillips, fresh out of divinity school and living in the frontier town of Yucca Flats. When a gang of seven criminals takes the town hostage, it’s up to Phil to save the village or die trying, again and again…