Erica Page (Gunslinger)

Erica Page (Allison Hayes) is a saloon owner in the wild west town of Oracle, Texas.
She is also an outlaw and a very dangerous Femme Fatale.
The town marshal is killed and the late lawman’s wife Rose
Hood (Beverly Garland) takes over the job. The railroad is looking to build a
new line through the town and Erica Page is attempting to buy up land cheaply to
sell at a profit to the railroad.
Erica likes men and likes to dress like a dance hall girl when
she is working at her saloon. (This movie was made in 1956 so it's hard to tell
exactly what other services this establishment offers besides whiskey). There are three dancehall girls working at the saloon and they do a version of the Can-Can as they strip down bit by bit to their corsets and fishnet stockings. 
Erica is apparently having an on again off again affair with her bartender Jake Hayes (Jonathan Haze) who is extremely loyal to Erica but also extremely jealous when she sleeps with other men.
thumb|244x244px|Rose confronts Erica while Jake looks on
Rose as the new town marshal, accompanied by her deputy, goes over to Erica’s saloon at 3 AM and tells her to close down for the night in accordance with town regulations. 
Erica in her low-cut dance hall girls outfit laughs as the prim and proper Rose and refuses to close her saloon, saying that it will remain open for 24 hours (apparently, she and her girls make most of their money after 3 A.M.)
Rose draws her guns and shoots out the oil lamp. The two women get in a catfight and begin to rip each other’s clothes off. (But the censors
of the day stop the fight before it goes to far). Jake the bartender jumps on Rose's huge deputy in an attempt to help Erica. Rose pushes Erica who falls down and hits her head on the bar knocking her out for a moment. Rose wins the fight and has made a new enemy. The Deputy throws Jack over the bar winning his fight as well. 
Erica sends her loyal boy-toy Jake to find and hire someone to
kill Rose. Jake hires a gunslinger named Cane Miro (John Ireland).
The town mayor Gideon Polk comes to Erica’s saloon and tells her that she’s borrowed too much money buying up land. When Cane arrives he offers to get rid of Polk. Erica stops him. She knows that she is about to sell the land and become rich and only wants Cane to kill Rose.
We find out later that Cane has a grudge against Polk.
Cane is a very macho brute and Erica finds him irresistible. She begins to flirt with him in front of her bartender and part to boy toy Jake. This drives Jake crazy and later when the conversation between Cane and Erica is taken up to her room, Jake tries to interrupt the couple before they go too far but is told to leave.
It’s implied that Cane has his way with the willing Erica at this point, but to appease the censors of the day, Erica tells Cane leave.
The next day Rose follows Cane, a known gunman, as he exits town. She seems to be interested both professionally and as a woman.
Cane knows he is being followed stops to let her catch up, they talk. Cane now makes a play for Rose.
Cane explains to Rose that Polk had been his commander of an artillery battery at a battle which could have been a victory but that Polk panicked and ran, depressing his men, with those who didn't desert their positions being decimated, including Cane's brothers, or captured like Cane himself.
Cane takes Rose in his arms and tries to kiss her. She resists at first but then they make out.
Cane the bad man is now in a love triangle with Erica, the bad girl, and Rose, the good girl. Cane takes turns making out with both of them. Both ladies find his bad-boy persona irresistible despite themselves. He is using them, lusting after them. They each come to his room at different times and he kisses each of them passionately. They push him away but always come back for more.
Jake sees Cane kissing Rose and reports to Erica, that the man she’s cheating on him, is cheating her. Erica becomes irate.
But later she goes to Canes room and he is all over her and she only partly resists before giving in. Jake watches and sees Cane kissing the woman he loves.
After Canes leaves Jake confronts Rose punching her in the face and knocking her to the ground. Erica yells at him. Jake runs out of the saloon and goes to Rose's office and tells her everything he knows. 
When Jake returns to the saloon he sees Cane. Jake begins to stalk Cane taking potshots at him and then running away. Cane is a real gunslinger and keeps his cool. He stays out of range and then follows Jake into the saloon where Jake draws a gun on Cane one more time. Cane kills Jake and he was climbing the stairs towards Erica's room. him.
Rose shows up on the scene gun drawn. She sees that Cane is there and she holsters her weapon. Erica tells Rose that Cane acted in self-defence. Rose does not arrest Cane.
thumb|220x220px|The Good, the Bad, and the Gunslinger form a love triangle.
There is a shot with Erica at the top of the stairs in her back low cut evening gown and Cane and Rose at the bottom of the stairs in her white shirt that perfectly illustrates the love triangle that now exists. Cane in black on the far right side of the screen is looking at Erica and Rose on the left side of the screen.
Erica is losing money as it is no longer allowed to stay open all hours. She is really missing that after 3 A.M. business so she can no longer afford to pay her dance hall girls. 
As she is paying the dancers for the last time, she mentions that if something happened to Rose, there wouldn't be a need
to fire them. With the message sent, she
pays them a bonus.
The three dancers led by Tessie (Chris Miller), ambush Rose
in the countryside while she is on horseback. They manhandle her to a nearby tree and attempt to put a noose around
her neck and hang her. However, Cane comes to her defence and drives the three dancers away. 
Rose tells them that they have three hours to get out of state, and if she ever sees them in town again, she would shoot them. The three girls immediately get on their
horses and leave. This is the last we
see of the lovely ladies.
Erica receives a letter from the Pony Express, informing her that the railroad will not be built. She is going to go broke.
Erica rides into town, intending to have Cane kill Rose.
Erica kills Deputy Joshua Tate (Chris Alcaide) when he
confronts her.
Cane goes after Polk and his wife, killing them both.
Rose enters town finding Mr. and Mrs. Polk have been killed.
Erica sees Rose and looks over at Cane telling him to shoot Rose. Cane hesitates. Erica then draws a gun, but Cane shoots Erica in the chest before she can kill Rose.
Rose and Cane then shoot it out. Cane is hit. He asks if Rose loved him, and she replies that she did.
Cane dies and Rose leaves town declaring she will never come back.
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