The fastest guitar alive, roy orbison s feature film debut, premiered on this day in 1967. Mens fastest guitar alive tshirt roy orbison online. So, when orbison expressed an interest in making a movie, exploitation producer sam katzman. The fastest guitar alive 1967 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Seriously though, if you like roy orbison, westerns, and cringe humor, this movie. The mustbeseentobebelieved fastest guitar alive offers singer roy orbison in his one and only movie starring role. The story elements amiable indians including iron eyes cody invent popcorn, a wagonload of cuties tag along with johnny and, of course, theres that guitar are a ramble, but the tale agreeably frames seven tunes. He died on december 6, 1988 in madison, tennessee, usa. The fastest guitar alive is one of those rocknroll movies that rocknroll would probably like to disown.
While on an espionage mission with partner steve sammy jackson. He did it twice, with its over on june 25, 1964, and oh, pretty woman on october 8, 1964. Orbison drifted for a while, starring in illreceived western the fastest guitar alive, before remarrying, returning to music, and seeing his profile jumpstarted by the use of his songs by david. Still, if youre a big roy orbison fan, or a fan of this kind of movie, this tape is for you.
The fastest guitar alive 1967 the fastest guitar alive. They pose as a travelling music show and stop at all the towns on the way in order for the girls to dance and roy orbison to sing. Diane lane matt dillon the big town 1987 japan clippings 2. To be fair there is a warning on the dvd case that this might happen. He was married to barbara orbison and claudette frady. The fastest guitar alive 1967 approved 1h 27min comedy, music, western 1 september 1967 usa the south is losing the civil war and the coffers are nearly empty. The fastest guitar alive by roy orbison album, film soundtrack. Roy orbison full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Check out the fastest guitar alive original motion picture soundtrack remastered by roy orbison on amazon music. The fastest guitar alive 1967 directed by michael d. In 1966, long before performing holograms, the singer, sans his trademark sunglasses, appeared in the western the fastest guitar alive. Roy orbison and maggie pierce in the fastest guitar alive 1967 roy orbison in.
Roy s character poses a purveyor of a snake oil elixir to pass off the fact that hes a confederate spy out to nab a. First, i want you to imagine a movie a film version of the wild wild west starring rock legend roy orbison. A group of confederate spies steals a shipment of gold in san francisco and attempts to deliver it to a confederate. With ten songs clocking in at a mere 27 minutes, most of the tunes which roy composed with longtime collaborator bill dees borrow from the cheesiest elements. Moores fastest guitar alive qualifies as egregiously abominable. Heres a promo photo from roy orbisons starring role in the mgm film. Roy orbison triumph and tragedy biopic in the works. Roy orbison the fastest guitar alive premiered on this. Roy orbison the fastest guitar alive releases discogs. Featuring original artwork from roy orbison s debut feature film role in the fastest guitar alive, this poster has a great vintage feel to add to your home, office, or dorm room.
Its roy orbison s only acting role for a clue as to why, see the movie. River by roy orbison from the fastest guitar alive movie. While on an espionage mission with partner steve sammy jackson, johnny discovers that the war is over, and that now he and steve are considered outlaws. His recording career promptly skidded downhill at least in the us, and this silly western comedy was the only film he completed. The soundtrack fares slightly better, but only slightly.
This colorful design features artwork from the original movie poster from roy orbison s movie debut in the fastest guitar alive. That being understood, learning that orbison was cast as a sharp shooting ace in a 1967 mgm western was a revelation. Roy orbison the fastest guitar alive 1967 into the mild. Roy orbison and his longtime cowriter bill dees oh, pretty woman, its over, and many other hits wrote all of the songs for the film that starred roy orbison in his feature film debut with mgm pictures. Out of respect for roy, i have tried to watch the movie on three different. The fastest guitar alive is a notorious musical stinker starring roy orbison without his trademark glasses.
A group of confederate spies steals a shipment of gold in san francisco and attempts to deliver it. Back in the 60s i saw the comedy western movie the fastest guitar alive. The fastest guitar alive is a 1967 american musical comedy film directed by michael d. The film is not bad, in a 60s musical sort of way, and roy orbison sings like an angel but my copy suffered from dvdritis and the picture alternately froze or brokeup on playback. The fastest guitar alive soundtrack was originally released in june of 1967. The fastest guitar alive original motion picture soundtrack remastered roy orbison september 1, 1967 rock.
The fastest guitar alive 1967 the bad movie report. Roy orbison was born on april 23, 1936 in vernon, texas, usa as roy kelton orbison. Orbison plays johnny banner, a confederate spy who keeps a rifle hidden in his guitar. The fastest guitar alive premiered on this day in 1967 and was roy s only starring role in a feature film. Originally, the fastest guitar alive was supposed to be elvis presleys followup film to love me tender 1957 but it was eventually rejected in favor of loving you 1957, an almost autobiographical account of the rock n roll stars climb to fame. Pistolero from the movie the fastest guitar alive roy orbison plays the starring role in this 1967 film. All official merchandise for the movie, including dvd, poster, tshirt, and soundtrack, is 20% off at store. The plot involves a couple of confederate secret agents who are travelling to san francisco in order to break into the union mint there. Moore and starring singer roy orbison in his only starring role as an. River from the fastest guitar alive youtube roy orbison s sons release new song with fathers voice duration. While on an espionage mission with partner steve sammy jackson, johnny discovers that the war is over. Heres a promo photo from roy orbison s starring role in the mgm filmfiled under. Dave miller 20080415 even though its as goofy as goofy gets, the fastest gun alive is a treatbecause its a stage for roy orbison and some of.
First, i want you to imagine a movie a film version of the wild wild west starring rock legend roy orbison im sorry, ive just asked you to imagine a more interesting movie than the fastest guitar alive. Orbison s one bid for film stardom, the fastest guitar alive, was an unqualified flop. The item is carefully removed from a vintage japan movie magazine. This is mainly a movie for roy orbison fanboys, but if you are a roy orbison fanboy, then you will be cryinglaughing throughout the entire movie because of the sheer elegance of this american treasure. Roy orbison the fastest guitar alive remixedremastered. Roy orbison essays his lone featurefilm role as johnny, he of the guitar that can twang a chord and riff bullets. This execrable, 87minute, sam katzman produced, comic oater casts vocalist roy orbison and sammy jackson respectively as confederate spies johnny banner and steve menlo. In fact, it may have driven rocknroll to drink and it was doing all right in that department before this film came along in 1967. Roy orbison the fastest guitar alive 1967 if you are like me, you have lived your entire life unsure as to if roy orbison was blind or not. The fastest guitar alive 1967 the bad movie report stomp tokyo.