The Naked Hills (1956)
1956 · Feature film · 75 min · dir. Josef Shaftel
- Western
Synopsis
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later,…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Josef Shaftel
- Writer
- Josef Shaftel
- Composer
- Herschel Burke Gilbert
- Cinematography
- Frederick Gately
- Studio
- Allied Artists Pictures, La Salle Productions
- Released
- 1956-06-17
- Running time
- 75 minutes
Cast & crew
- Josef Shaftel Director
David Wayne
Keenan Wynn
James Barton
Marcia Henderson
Jim Backus
Denver Pyle
Myrna Dell
Lewis L. Russell
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Pretty good · kareneliot · 2010-11-06
I really need to review movies right after I watch them... I viewed this a few days ago and can't remember much except that I enjoyed it, and thought Jim Backus (Mr. Thurston Howell, the III from Gilligan's Island) was great as a bad guy. It kept my interest and I was entertained. I recall the story moved along ok, and the characters were all pretty decently acted. I was impressed by the over-all feeling of what "Gold Fever" must have been like. Very well done.
