Advantages: Good cast, Good Story Disadvantages: Poor production, Poor Sound
Made in 1969 this is not your traditional western, without wanting to bore you about the decline of the American western in the 50's and 60's you could argue that the last 'traditional' westerns were made in the late 50's. By then the audiences were staying away and apart from a few examples such as the Magnificent Seven (1960) Hollywood had turned it's back on the oldest genre of filmmaking. It took an Italian, Sergio Leone in the mid sixties to ... ...violent, less moralistic and semi operatic film we know known as spaghetti westerns. From that moment on US filmmakers took the lead form Leone and other European directors and tried their hand at producing quirky more stylised version of the traditional cowboy flick. 'Mackenna's Gold' is one such example. It has all the ingredients of a western but it also as was the fashion in the sixties subverts the genre and it has elements of fantasy adventure ...
Mauri 20.08.2004
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Advantages: Great action scenes and a very interesting story line... Disadvantages: Not many
...of the Ancient American Indians. MacKenna's Gold is a lavish film, and quite an entertaining one too. Shot in 1968, it boasts of some excellent color photography with wonderful panoramic visuals.. It had some of the biggest stars of those days like Gregory peck, Omar Sheriff ,Telly Savales, Eli Wallaich, Anthony Gale, Camilla Sparv among a host of othres... ==The Film== MecKennas Gold is the story of a group of people looking for a legendary valley ... ...opening song 'Old Turkey Buzzard ' which recurs through the film was sung by José Feliciano and was composed by Quincy Jones with lyrics by Freddie Douglas. The film opens with a narration by Victor Jory about an Apache legend, about a hidden canyon, guarded by the Apache gods filled with gold. The legend goes on to tell that, as long as the Apaches kept the canyon a secret and never touched the gold, they would remain strong and powerful, and the ...
kiran8 04.08.2009
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A U.S. Sheriff entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold is attacked by an ... more
unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based ...
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GREGORY PECK and OMAR SHARIF battle to find a legendary cache of gold in this spectacular ... more
Wild West adventure. In the Arizona Territory of the 1870s, Marshal Sam Mackenna (Peck) is the only living person who knows the tortuous route to the fabulous Can...
Production Year: 1959 - Westerns - Director: Howard Hawks - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Ward Bond, Claude Akins, Walter Brennan, John Russell
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