The Fastest Guitar Alive

The Fastest Guitar AlivePosing as purveryors of a snake oil elixir, Johnny and Steve are really Confederate spies out to nab a major cure all for depleted rebel coffers: $150,000 in gold from the San Francisco mint. What, you say the war is over? Well, maybe the good ol' boys can return the lucre. and avoid being arrested in the process! Roy Orbison essays his lone feature film role as Johnny, he of the guitar that can twang a chord and riff bullets. The story elements

the South built and sent into war the hand-powered submarine CSS Hunley

Ford ably personifies the dark and dangerous stranger while character great Arthur Kennedy brings a deft everyman touch to the role of the increasingly brutal Forbes

to play his fiancee

James Garner and Lee Remick star as hucksters who try to mix love and finance while promoting a mysterious--and nonexistent--new product

But the unquestioned highlight is a 12-minute stop-motion recreation of prehistoric life

A filmmaking legend of even greater renown was in the wings

So when Siena's cruel Spanish overlord Don Carlos (Riccardo Garrone) hires him to protect his fianc�e

a double-cross that will lead to murder and a shocking surprise when the cops reveal the killer's name

mothers or drudges

The Naughty Flirt is kewpie-doll cutie Alice White

her diamond necklace is missing and her shady husband (Price) is suspected of the crimes

a former cab driver chained to a wall in solitary confinement because of his defiance of prison authorities