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A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.
Víctor Manuel Mendoza
- Vicente Madariaga
- (as Victor Manuel Mendoza)
Antonio Bribiesca
- Antonio, bartender
- (uncredited)
- …
Manuel Dondé
- Cantina Waiter
- (uncredited)
Arturo Soto Rangel
- Priest
- (uncredited)
Salvador Terroba
- Victim
- (uncredited)
Fernando Wagner
- Steamboat Captain
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was the fourth film telecast on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies," the first television program to exclusively broadcast post-1948 theatrical films on US network television. This one was first telecast 14 October 1961, and like the opener of the series, How to Marry a Millionaire, and several others which followed, had been filmed in CinemaScope, at its original 2.55:1 ratio, and so had to be "formatted to fit your screen" i.e. shown pan/scan in the conventional 4:3 TV ratio, losing nearly half of the image in the process, and literally destroying the composition of each scene. But viewers didn't seem to mind. The idea proved so successful that NBC soon followed it up with another series with the identical format, "Monday Night at the Movies," and it wasn't long before the format was taken up by both CBS and ABC.
- GoofsThe film is set in Mexico and the Indians are being called Apaches. However, they are dressed as Northeastern American Mohawks. In addition, the men of the Apache nations were traditionally long-haired. In this film, the "Apache" Indians are sporting Northeastern Mohawk haircuts.
- ConnectionsEdited into Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965)
- SoundtracksLa Negra Noche
by Emilio D. Uranga
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Garden of Evil and Legend of the Lost:fools gold.
Some people complained about the Indian's role.I think that the first thing to bear in mind is that this western is more a fable than a realist story:the Indians ,whom we almost never see -a little more than the Arabs in Ford's "the lost patrol" or Duvivier's "la bandera",but not much more-:they are silhouettes in the landscape .The real danger is man's endless greed who ,were the earth made of gold,would die for a handful of it.That's what Gary Cooper's character says.
I think that Hathaway's 1957 movie "Legend of the Lost" is more convincing than "Garden" .This search for a treasure in the desert does not need an outside threat:no hostile tribe here.Men are finally on their own and madness is around the corner.
Try to see both movies in a row,mainly if you do not think that Henry Hathaway is an auteur.He is.
I think that Hathaway's 1957 movie "Legend of the Lost" is more convincing than "Garden" .This search for a treasure in the desert does not need an outside threat:no hostile tribe here.Men are finally on their own and madness is around the corner.
Try to see both movies in a row,mainly if you do not think that Henry Hathaway is an auteur.He is.
- dbdumonteil
- Jun 30, 2003
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- Budget
- $2,070,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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