Civil War doctor loses his family, and his right arm, to a group of psychopaths who have come to rob them, leaving everyone dying or dead. The doc replaces his missing limb with a double-barreled shotgun and goes after them. That was the flicker of a movie idea I had in 1993 for a low-budget Western. I needed to flesh it out, but I thought if I pitched the script right, someone might just make it. That did not happen. Many times. What did happen: This December 3, thanks to editor Gary G


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