Sierra

1950
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1h 23min

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Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, and Richard Rober in Sierra (1950)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.

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6,4/10

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On September 29, 1949, four horses were injured and two killed while shooting a horse stampede scene. That same day, a 30-minute rainstorm caused a flash flood, which ruined about $10,000 of Technicolor photographic equipment. Hendrix came to the filming with a still-painful broken foot she had suffered earlier. She had nosebleeds and shortness of breath from the altitude in Utah, and in one scene, she was stung on the neck by yellow jackets. Murphy, already troubled with ulcers, nightmares, and PTSD from his war experiences, had severe cracked and blistering on his lips from the sun and literally could not smile due to the pain. Because Universal-International felt this was too noticeable on screen at times, after main production ended, a few of his scenes were re-shot later at Universal Studios. Main filming ended on October 3 and the next day, back in Hollywood, Hendrix announced that she and Murphy were separated.

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At about 1hour 20 minutes into the movie in the final scene, Dean Jagger's character (Jeff) has his hands tied with rope as he sits on his horse under arrest. When it's learned he is innocent the sheriff shakes his hand and Jagger's hands are not tied. During the same scene, Tony Curtis' character's holster is inexplicably empty with no gun in it.

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Featured in Biography: Audie Murphy: Great American Hero (1996)

Colonne sonore
HIDEAWAY
Music by Arnold Schwarzwald (as Arnold Hughes)
Lyrics by Frederick Herbert
Performed by Burl Ives (behind credits)

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8/10

Russell Metty

This early Audie Murphy western for Universal has Murphy as the feral son of Dean Jagger, a man "everyone knows" committed murder and then fled. No one believes in his innocence except for lawyer Wanda Hendrix (they were married at the time, but broke up soon after production ended).

Directed by Alfred Green, this movie is a master class in Technicolor camerawork by DP Russell Metty. The opening sequence in Cedar Breaks National Monument looks like an oil painting; the night scenes look like Rembrandt, and the entire movie has the rich, black undertoning that disappeared from the Technicolor lexicon soon after. Metty's reputation as an artist with the camera would continue to rise until he won an Oscar for SPARTACUS; his later work was mostly on undistinguished movies and distinguished TV specials. He died in 1978 at the age of 71.

There is quite a supporting cast, including Burl Ives -- who sings a few songs -- Tony Curtis, Sarah Allgood and James Arness. Mostly, though, I just enjoyed Metty's work.