Garden of Evil (1954)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 100m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Susan Hayward, Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark
Synopsis:
Three prospectors en route through Mexico are offered money by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from a cave-in deep inside Apache country.
Review:
Fine cinematography (Milton Krasner) and music (Bernard Herrmann) are not entirely done service by one of those old chestnut plots in which ill-assorted characters trek towards a common, or not so common, goal. As here, the films tend to expend large tracts of their running time in endless long shots of the group on the move through spectacular scenery (you have to make the location pay, after all), and scenes of them locking horns around campfires, before a perfunctory action climax of some sort. Cast and director deliver expected compensations but it could have been so much better.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 100m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Susan Hayward, Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark
Synopsis:
Three prospectors en route through Mexico are offered money by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from a cave-in deep inside Apache country.
Review:
Fine cinematography (Milton Krasner) and music (Bernard Herrmann) are not entirely done service by one of those old chestnut plots in which ill-assorted characters trek towards a common, or not so common, goal. As here, the films tend to expend large tracts of their running time in endless long shots of the group on the move through spectacular scenery (you have to make the location pay, after all), and scenes of them locking horns around campfires, before a perfunctory action climax of some sort. Cast and director deliver expected compensations but it could have been so much better.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 100m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Susan Hayward, Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark
Synopsis:
Three prospectors en route through Mexico are offered money by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from a cave-in deep inside Apache country.
Review:
Fine cinematography (Milton Krasner) and music (Bernard Herrmann) are not entirely done service by one of those old chestnut plots in which ill-assorted characters trek towards a common, or not so common, goal. As here, the films tend to expend large tracts of their running time in endless long shots of the group on the move through spectacular scenery (you have to make the location pay, after all), and scenes of them locking horns around campfires, before a perfunctory action climax of some sort. Cast and director deliver expected compensations but it could have been so much better.