Country: USA
Year: 1958
Duration: 80
George Hanson is an honest, hardworking whaler, who returns to his Texas hometown after 20 years at sea. Hearing the tragic news of his father’s death two days earlier, George finds little support from the local sheriff. Investigating on his own, George uncovers an evil conspiracy that involves McNeil, an oil speculator, who had his father killed over a land sale gone wrong.
Biography
film director
Joseph H. Lewis
(New York, 1907 – Los Angeles, 2000) attended High School in the Bronx and when his brother Ben moved to Hollywood in 1927, he decided to follow with the hope of becoming an actor. He became an assistant film editor and began his directorial career at the end of 1930s by turning out low-budget B-Westerns. He was equally comfortable working in different genres: horror (Invisible Ghost, 1940), comedy (That Gang of Mine), detective mystery (The Falcon in San Francisco), costume adventure (The Swordsman, 1948), and musicals (Minstrel Man, 1944). He is primarily known for his work in film noir during the 1940s and early 1950s, among which Gun Crazy is still considered his masterpiece. Toward the end career, he worked in television, directing mostly westerns: The Rifleman, Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke. He also directed the 1961 CBS crime adventure-drama series The Investigators.
FILMOGRAFIA
Courage of the West (1937), The Singing Outlaw (1937), The Spy Ring (1938), Border Wolves (1938), The Last Stand (1938), Two-Fisted Rangers (1939), Invisible Ghost (Lo spettro invisibile, 1941), Blazing Six Shooters (1940), The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940), Texas Stagecoach (1940), The Return of Wild Bill (1940), Boys of the City (1940), That Gang of Mine (1940), Pride of the Bowery (1940), Invisible Ghost (1941), Arizona Cyclone (1941), The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942), Bombs Over Burma (Il mistero di Burma, (1942), The Silver Bullet (1942), Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942), Secrets of a Co-Ed (1942), Criminals Within (Criminali, 1943), Minstrel Man (1944), The Falcon in San Francisco (1945), My Name Is Julia Ross(Mi chiamo Giulia Ross, 1945), So Dark the Night (Così scura la notte, 1946), The Swordsman (Spade insanguinate, 1948), The Undercover Man (Mani lorde, 1949), Gun Crazy (La sanguinaria, 1950), A Lady Without Passport (L’amante, 1950), Retreat, Hell! (Valanga gialla, 1952), Desperate Search (Disperata ricerca, 1952), Cry of the Hunted (L’urlo dell’inseguito, 1953), The Big Combo (La polizia bussa alla porta, 1955), A Lawless Street (I senza Dio, 1955), 7th Cavalry (7º Cavalleria, 1956), The Halliday Brand (Il marchio dell’odio, 1957), Terror in a Texas Town (Il terrore del Texas, 1958).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Joseph H. Lewis. SCREENPLAY: Dalton Trumbo (credited to Ben L. Perry). CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ray Rennahan. PRODUCTION DESIGN: William Ferrari. FILM EDITING: Frank Sullivan, Stefan Arnsten. MUSIC: Gerald Fried. CAST: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Martin, Ned Young, Victor Millan. PRODUCER: Frank N. Seltzer. PRODUCTION: Seltzer Films.
