The thing most talked about about in this movie for the past 40 years or so, is the shot that broke the beer glass as the man dropped it. This was all in a single filming and no switching frames. I asked a "show gunslinger" after a 1973 demonstration in Scottsdale AZ, and he said it was done with remote control of explosives in the glass. Many years later about 1998, I asked a visiting showman, Joe Bowman in Salisbury MD, and he said that Rod Redwing shot the glass with a .22 cal rifle. So, who knows?? However, I did see, and video tape, Joe Bowman on two separate occasions, fire 3 shots with a "Single Action .45" so quick it sounded like one shot. I saw the primers of the three shells before and the dented primers after.
Review of The Fastest Gun Alive
The Fastest Gun Alive
(1956)
One of the trickiest , but realistic shots in movie history
2 August 2006