Episode 173
April 29, 2025

Average Dancing Girls

MST3K 511 • Gunslinger

Hosted by Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma

Gunslinger comes moseying into town, taking potshots at Chris and Charlotte as they discuss Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Roger Corman, the Pony Express, and sex workers of the Old West.

cw: This episode doesn’t get as spicy as the last one, but you saw that last discussion item, right?

Show Notes.

Gunslinger (Roger Corman, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Ask Any Buddy on Kansas City Trucking Co.

Our episode on Swamp Diamonds.

A Part of our Scare-itage on Scanners.

Our episodes on The Painted Hills and The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival.

We talk about Have Gun Will Travel (the show with Paladin) in our episode on Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. (Wait, really?)

We’re not gonna link to every Corman film, just go to the episode guide for your favourites.

Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

Three Hours to Kill (Alfred L. Werker, 1954).

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954).

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945).

The National Cowboy Museum on the roles of women in the West.

Mary Ellen Pleasant, who, it turns out, did not like the nickname “Mammy”, so we apologize for that.

Anne Seagraves: Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West.

Julia Bulette.

Chris has always wanted a hurdy-gurdy.

The Pony Express National Historic Trail is something you can still explore.

The stagecoach lines of nineteenth-century Texas.

The Texas Almanac of 1870.

Supai, Arizona.

A postal route map of Texas, 1870.

Sam Bass.

Alan Lomax: Sam Bass.

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