Copper Canyon (film)

Copper Canyon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Farrow
Produced by	Mel Epstein
Screenplay by	Jonathan Latimer
Story by	Richard English
Starring	Ray Milland Hedy Lamarr
Music by	Daniele Amfitheatrof
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Eda Warren
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	September 22, 1950 (1950-09-22) (USA)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.2 million (US rentals)^[1]

Copper Canyon is a 1950 American western film directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland and Hedy Lamarr.^[2]

Plot

A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.

Cast

Ray Milland as Johnny Carter
Hedy Lamarr as Lisa Roselle
Macdonald Carey as Deputy Lane Travis
Mona Freeman as Caroline Desmond
Harry Carey Jr. as Lt. Ord

Production notes

Production Dates: 14 Apr-early Jun 1949
Paramount postponed the release of this film to coincide with the release of the song "Copper Canyon."
Some scenes were shot on location near Flagstaff, AZ, and at Vasquez Rocks in Chatsworth, CA.

References

↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1950', Variety, January 3, 1951
↑ http://allmovie.com/work/copper-canyon-10989

External links

Copper Canyon at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Farrow

The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Men in Exile (1937)
West of Shanghai (1937)
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
The Invisible Menace (1938)
My Bill (1938)
Reno (1939)
Sorority House (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
Full Confession (1939)
Women in the Wind (1939)
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Married and in Love (1940)
Wake Island (1942)
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
China (1943)
The Hitler Gang (1944)
You Came Along (1945)
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
California (1947)
Blaze of Noon (1947)
Calcutta (1947)
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Beyond Glory (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Copper Canyon (1950)
Submarine Command (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Botany Bay (1953)
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Back from Eternity (1956)
The Unholy Wife (1957)
John Paul Jones (1959)

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