The men hide their treasure and fend off McCracken with the help of Doc Gates Chill Wills , before escaping to recover at the ranch of Rainbolt's friend, Amos Gondora Robert Middleton , waiting until they can retrieve the gold. It was a sound decision. Location scenes were filmed in and around Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, which features a landscape of unique geological formations that give the film a look that is at once desolate, alien, and beautiful. Filmed in Warnerscope, cinematography is by Joseph F. Once again it is a pity that a wide screen movie filmed with such spectacular scenery in the background was not done in color.
His casting was announced in June 1955. An irascible old gunfighter turned doctor and a Mexican caballero get caught up in the pursuit of the gold. The marriage produced one daughter, Valerie born 1950 before ending in divorce in 1968. Incidentally, the Gold Medal paperback edition of Running Target did not come out until after the movie 1957. Rainbolt tracks and finds McCracken and his men. I suspect anyone viewing it today might feel leniently toward it, as it has a certain charm of its own. Fun to play, fun to do a dialect.
He had a supporting role in the - comedy, 1964. He worked his way from comedy shorts to B-movies to becoming a contract director at Warner Bros where he became reliable at westerns, crime movies, and action films. In May 1971 he was seriously injured in a skiing accident on Mammoth Mountain but he recovered. Fur-trapping partners Clint Walker and Roger Moore stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory. Douglas broke into the business as a child actor before moving to the other side of the camera as a gag writer and director for Hal Roach. Chill Wills plays a doctor with an equally villainous thirst for whiskey, and Robert Middleton is a perhaps overly friendly Mexican bandit named Gondora.
Both actors showed their versatility in moving from light situations to more serious situations;their charisma made the movie. . Jim Rainbolt Walker and Shaun Garrett Moore strike it rich and quickly find themselves pursued across the sun scorched lands by money hungry baddies. He also made the giant ant cult thriller Them! Westerns keep me outdoors and active. Walker returned to Westerns with 1969. Box office returns were modest. Release Date: Not Yet Rated 1 hr 28 min Plot Summary After discovering a fortune in gold nuggets, Shaun Garrett Roger Moore and his partner, Jim Rainbolt Clint Walker , make their way toward the town of Seven Saints to redeem it for cash.
It's what can be termed as a poor man's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. After leaving the Merchant Marine, he worked doing odd jobs in , , and , where he worked as a at the. That the movie was filmed in black-and-white was a crime against nature. A pair of trappers stumble upon a fortune in gold nuggets and are packing it out of the desert--250 pounds of it--when their secret gets out and a deadly bandit pursues them with a gang of gunslingers. Jim and Shaun run from them and must cross a rushing river to get away. The lean widescreen western was produced by Warner Bros.
Biroc provided the black-and-white photography, most of which was shot in and around in Utah. Walker was also employed as a worker and a. The men hide their treasure and fend off McCracken with the help of Doc Gates Chill Wills , before escaping to recover at the ranch of Rainbolt's friend, Amos Gondora Robert Middleton , waiting until they can retrieve the gold. A friend in the film industry helped get him a few bit parts that brought him to the attention of , which was developing a television series. Walker then married Susan Cavallari in 1997. Which is not a good idea.
In , he was hired by to appear in. Cheyenne turned out to be the breakout hit. While they are gone, McCracken and some men ride up and take Shaun and Doc captive. Walker left school to work at a factory and on a , then joined the at the age of 17 in the last months of. It was the third film that Moore made with Gordon Douglas, who hit it off with Moore during their first collaboration, The Miracle 1959 , where Douglas handled the action scenes.
Moore and Walker played off each other well, and Gene Evans delivers his usual good villain. Not haveing read the original story, I can imagine that Frazee may have objected to the ligher tone the film takes, since even though it follows Treasure of Sierra Madre it does so with a decided comic touch. In a fall from a , Walker was pierced through the heart with a. When they get there, Rainbolt feigns being unable to move the boulder alone, drawing McCracken in close enough for Rainbolt to roll another boulder onto McCracken's leg, trapping him. Gene Evans is McCracken, the villainous leader of the bunch, and hardly anybody played a meaner, tougher western villain than Gene Evans. I wished several times that it had been in color.
It proved hugely popular for eight seasons. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of that particular edition. Walker supported in the biopic 1972 and starred a short-lived series in 1974 called , playing an Alaskan patrolman. Cheyenne originally appeared as part of rotating with adaptations of and. After doing some guest appearances in he fought a grizzly bear in Paramount's Western, 1966. Leave a Reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website. The desert heat was so dry that, according to Moore, the sweat evaporated before it hit the skin and the crew had to oil the costumes to mimic sweat.