Fastest Guitar Alive, The - (Original Trailer)

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Pistolero

In his first song since the opening, about 20 minutes back, composed with longtime collaborator Bill Dees, the gulf between Roy Orbison’s qualities as an actor, as Confederate spy Johnny, and as a singer, is especially apparent, wielding his gimmick rifle-guitar, in the musical-Western-comedy from producer Sam Katzman, The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967.

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Title Song

Opening from producer Sam Katzman’s bid, using a script rejected ten years earlier by Elvis Presley, to make singer Roy Orbison a movie star, with partner Sammy Jackson, and a wagon of showgirls (Joan Freeman, Maggie Pierce et al) in The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967, which notably does not feature the soundtrack song, “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home,” used in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, 2015.

Fastest Guitar Alive, The (1967) -- (Movie Cilp) Whirlwind

"Whirlwind," composed by Roy Orbison (performing as "Johnny") and partner Bill Dees, with showgirl-girlfriends Flo (Maggie Pierce), Sue (Joan Freeman) and sidekick Steve (Sammy Jackson) listening, far superior to their vehicle The Fastest Guitar Alive, 1967.