The Fastest Guitar Alive

The Fastest Guitar Alive

Infobox_Film
name = The Fastest Guitar Alive


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
imdb_id = 0061652
writer = Robert E. Kent (screenplay)
starring = Roy Orbison
Sammy Jackson
Maggie Pierce
director = Michael D. Moore
producer = Sam Katzman
distributor = MGM
released = September 1, 1967
runtime = 87 min.
language = English
music =
awards =
budget = $---

"The Fastest Guitar Alive" is a 1967 MGM motion picture starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort.

The film features Orbison performing several original songs which appeared on his 1967 MGM record album of the same name.

See also: http://www.thefastestguitaralive.com

Production

*Director: Michael D. Moore
*Producer: Sam Katzman
*Screenplay: Robert E. Kent
*Cinematography: W. Wallace Kelley
*Film editing: Ben Lewis
*Music: Roy Orbison, Bill Dees, Fred Karger

Primary cast

*Roy Orbison - Johnny Banner
*Sammy Jackson - Steve Menlo
*Maggie Pierce - Flo
*Joan Freeman - Sue

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Album

Infobox Album | Name = The Fastest Guitar Alive
Type = Album
Artist = Roy Orbison

| Released = 1967
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock Ballads
Length = 22:27
Label = MGM (E 4475)
Producer = Wesley Rose & Jim Vienneau
Reviews =
* Allmusic (2/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ml5h8q9tbtb4 link]
Last album = "Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson"
(1967)
This album = "The Fastest Guitar Alive"
(1967)
Next album = "Cry Softly Lonely One"
(1967)

"The Fastest Guitar Alive" is the soundtrack title for the 33 1/3 record album from MGM Records released in June 1967.

Track listing

All songs written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees

ide one

# Whirlwind
# Medicine Man, Medicine Man
# River
# The Fastest Guitar Alive
# Rollin' On

ide two

# Pistolero
# Good Time Party
# Heading South
# Best Friend
# There Won't Be Many Coming Home


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