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Mackenna's Gold
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1969 western film directed by J. Lee Thompson
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Mackenna's Gold is an American Western action film directed by J. Lee Thompson and produced by Dimitri Tiomkin and Carl Foreman. The screenplay was written by Foreman together with Henry Wilson Allen. The film starred Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas and Camilla Sparv, with cinematography by Joseph MacDonald, editing by Bill Lenny, costumes by Norma Koch, narration by Victor Jory, and a score performed and composed by Quincy Jones.
Made by Columbia Pictures and released in 1969 with a budget of 7,000,000 dollars, the film was also distributed by Netflix on video on demand.
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Film · TMDB
6.6A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Cast
- Gregory Peck as Marshal MacKenna
- Omar Sharif as Colorado
- Camilla Sparv as Inga Bergmann
- Julie Newmar as Hesh-Ke
- Telly Savalas as Sergeant Tibbs
- Keenan Wynn as Sanchez
Themes
- gold
- marshal
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Key facts
- Directed by
- J. Lee Thompson
- Screenplay by
- Carl Foreman
- Based on
- Mackenna's Gold , 1963 novel, by Will Henry
- Produced by
- Carl Foreman, Dimitri Tiomkin
- Starring
- Gregory Peck Omar Sharif Telly Savalas Camilla Sparv Keenan Wynn Julie Newmar
- Narrated by
- Victor Jory
- Cinematography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Edited by
- Bill Lenny
- Music by
- Quincy Jones
- Color process
- Technicolor
- Production companies
- Highroad Productions, Inc.
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release dates
- March 18, 1969 ( 1969-03-18 ) (Premiere) May 10, 1969 ( 1969-05-10 ) (Phoenix)
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $7 million
- Box office
- $41 million ( estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- J. Lee Thompson
- Screenwriter
- Henry Wilson Allen
- Composer
- Quincy Jones
- Producer
- Carl Foreman
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Joseph MacDonald
- Duration
- 132
- FilmAffinity ID
- 659211
- Performer
- Quincy Jones
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1969-01-01
- film editor
- Bill Lenny
- title
- Mackenna's Gold
- narrator
- Victor Jory
- costume designer
- Norma Koch
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 20%
- capital cost
- 7000000
- Commons category
- Mackenna's Gold
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Encyclopedic overview
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles. It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 and Technicolor by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones.
Mackenna's Gold is based on the novel of the same name by Heck Allen using the pen name Will Henry, telling the story of how the lure of gold corrupts a diverse group of people. The novel was loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings, crediting the Frank Dobie account of the legend (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver) in the author's note. The film was a box-office failure in North America, but went on to become a major success in the Soviet Union and the Indian subcontinent.
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