The Yellow Mountain

1954
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1h 18m

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Lex Barker, Howard Duff, and Mala Powers in The Yellow Mountain (1954)

Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.

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Lex Barker

Andy Martin

Mala Powers

Nevada Wray

Howard Duff

Pete Menlo

William Demarest

Jackpot Wray

John McIntire

Bannon
(as John Mc.Intyre)

Leo Gordon

Drake

Dayton Lummis

Geraghty

Hal K. Dawson

Sam Torrence

William Fawcett

Old Prospector

James Parnell

Denver Pyle

George Yost

Fred Aldrich

Miner
(uncredited)

Carl Andre

Eddie Case
(uncredited)

Joe Bailey

Henchman
(uncredited)

Paul Bryar

Miner
(uncredited)

James J. Casino

Bouncer
(uncredited)

Spencer Chan

Miner
(uncredited)

Russell Custer

Miner
(uncredited)

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As Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) starts to leave Bannon's (John McIntyre) office Drake, (leo Gordon) starts to go for his gun to shoot him but Bannon stops him. The gun is reversed in the holster so that the handle is pointing forward but in all other shots of Drake the gun is the right way round.

Connections
Referenced in Nights of Cabiria (1957)

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10/10

Nifty B-Western With Gold-Seeking Layers

Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double-crossing con artists, and THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN starts right off with honest hero Lex Barker punching his former backstabbing friend in the office of a saloon that's the central location: until they venture into the titular mine with two different names on the claims...

There's the shifty fella Barker fought with in charming, unpredictable Howard Duff, with his eyes on the gorgeous daughter of unlucky lifelong gambling miner William Demarest, a kind of passive version of Walter Huston...

Yet the budding romance between stubborn scene-stealing beauty Mala Powers with a wooden yet dependably agile Barker has more initial suspense than the inevitable battle-for-riches, that also includes sophisticated villain John McIntire (who owns a neighboring saloon) along with his lead thug in genuine tough guy Leo Gordon...

Eventually becoming the most severe, palpable threat, as Barker battles both crooked partner Duff and Gordon's savage gunslinger in a Western aptly balancing unpredictable twist-and-turn action/adventure and competitive romance in a perfect programmer's length of 80 minutes -- that economically covers all that needs uncovering.