Country: USA
Year: 1954
Duration: 83
1881. Quattro furfanti – Ray Cully, Bronco, Dutch e Yaqui – sono in viaggio verso Cholla, dove progettano di rapinare la banca, e dove Cully ha un conto da regolare con l’ex compare Jim Flannery, riportato sulla retta via dalla moglie Maggie (ex fidanzata di Cully) e divenuto sceriffo. Lungo il cammino i malviventi si imbattono nell’anziano Simon Bhumer, vecchio amico di Dutch, e nella figlia Lolly, che si innamora, ricambiata, di Cully. In fuga verso il Messico, Cully dovrà scegliere fra la sicurezza oltre confine o salvare Simon e Lolly, caduti prigionieri di un gruppo di Apache.
Biography
film director
Richard Carlson
(Albert Lea, Minnesota, USA, 1912 - Encino, Los Angeles, USA, 1977) starred on Broadway during the 1930s and made his debut as a big screen actor in the comedy The Young in Heart (Richard Wallace, 1938). In Hollywood he becomes a versatile actor, able to adapt to comedy (The Ghost Breakers, George Marshall, 1940), the adventure film (The Howards of Virginia, Frank Lloyd, 1940), melodramas (Little Foxes, William Wyler, 1941) and musical (Presenting Lily Mars, Norman Taurog, 1943). Volunteer for the WWII, on his return he struggles to resume his career and has to wait for the affirmation of science fiction and series B horror in the 50s to find success, thanks to roles such as It Came from Outer Space (1953) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), both directed by Jack Arnold. The decision to switch to directing also dates from this period, with films such as Riders to the Stars (1954) and the western Four Guns to the Border (1954). From the second half of the 1950s he also worked as a TV actor and director, in Mackenzie’s Raiders (1958-59), Wagon Train (1963-64), The Fugitive (1964), The Virginian (1964-65), Rawhide (1965), Perry Mason (1964-66) and Bonanza (1968).
FILMOGRAFIA
Flight to California (cm, 1952), Riders to the Stars (Esploratori dell’infinito, 1954), Four Guns to the Border (I desperados della frontiera, 1954), Appointment with a Shadow (L’assassino sul tetto, 1957), The Unchained Goddess (tv, 1958), The Saga of Hemp Brown (La vendetta del tenente Brown, 1958), Mackenzie’s Raiders (serie tv, 1959), The Man and the Challenge (serie tv, L’uomo e la sfida, 1959), Men Into Space (serie tv, 1959), The Aquanauts (serie tv, 1960), This Man Dawson (serie tv, 1959-1960), Thriller (serie tv, 1961), Letter to Loretta (serie tv, 1960-1961), Alcoa Premiere (serie tv, 1961), Detectives (serie tv, 1961-1962), Kid Rodelo (1966).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Richard Carlson. STORY: Louis L’Amour. SCREENPLAY: George Van Marter, Franklin Coen. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Russell Metty. FILM EDITING: Frank Gross. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom. COSTUME DESIGN: Jay A. Morley Jr. MUSIC: Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner, Herman Stein. SOUND: Leslie I. Carey, Corson Jowett. CAST: Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan, Nina Foch, John McIntire, Charles Drake, Jay Silverheels, Nestor Paiva, Mary Field, Robert F. Hoy. PRODUCER: William Alland. PRODUCTION: Universal Pictures.
