Based on the book The Fastest Gun in the Pulpit by Jack Ehrlich, this ABC TV movie has Ernie Parsons (Marjoe Gortner) escaping the noose and taking the identity of a murderer holy man. He heads off to take over that man's church, a job he really knows nothing about, but it'll keep him alive hiding out for a while.
While there, he finds himself standing up to the man who has taken over the town, Mr. Ross (David Huddleston). It's not totally noble, as he falls for the daughter of a man Ross has murdered, Sally Underwood (Pamela Sue Martin).
Jeff Corey is in the lynch mob at the beginning and Slim Pickens plays Billy One-Eye, who helps Ernie. Plus, Geoffrey Lewis is a hired killer named Jason McCoy who comes in to take out Ernie and they end up missing each other at close range and then decide to just go their own way.
Directed by Daniel Petrie (Moon of the Wolf, A Howling In the Woods) and written by William Bowers (Support Your Local Sheriff!), this isn't the finest ride into the West you've seen, but it's pleasant and I always love Gortner.
While there, he finds himself standing up to the man who has taken over the town, Mr. Ross (David Huddleston). It's not totally noble, as he falls for the daughter of a man Ross has murdered, Sally Underwood (Pamela Sue Martin).
Jeff Corey is in the lynch mob at the beginning and Slim Pickens plays Billy One-Eye, who helps Ernie. Plus, Geoffrey Lewis is a hired killer named Jason McCoy who comes in to take out Ernie and they end up missing each other at close range and then decide to just go their own way.
Directed by Daniel Petrie (Moon of the Wolf, A Howling In the Woods) and written by William Bowers (Support Your Local Sheriff!), this isn't the finest ride into the West you've seen, but it's pleasant and I always love Gortner.