Copper Canyon ** (1950, Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Harry Carey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 12,078

There’s Hedy stuff in the 1950 Technicolor Western film Copper Canyon. Ray Milland does have his moments courting the lovely Hedy Lamarr.

Director John Farrow’s 1950 Technicolor Western film Copper Canyon stars Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr and Macdonald Carey.

Hedy Lamarr and Macdonald Carey whip up US Civil War animosities to take over a copper mining empire, in this mostly unconvincing oater.

Milland doesn’t seem home on the range (Monument Valley was never one of Milland’s home Welsh valleys!) as a dandy Confederate officer hiding as a showman sharpshooter, though he does have his moments courting the lovely Lamarr.

And the film can boast a few good action scenes, nice Technicolor photography by Charles B Lang Jr and a handsome Paramount Pictures production.

Jonathan Latimer’s screenplay is based on a story by Richard English.

It was shot from 14 April 1949 till early July 1949. It was released on 23 October 1950 in the US. Paramount postponed the release to coincide with the release of the theme song ‘Copper Canyon’.

Some scenes were shot on location near Sedona, Arizona and at Vasquez Rocks in Chatsworth, Los Angeles.

The cast are 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, Frank Faylen, Hope Emerson, Taylor Holmes, Peggy Knudsen, James Burke, Percy Helton, Philip Van Zandt, Francis Pierlot, Paul Lees, Earl Hodgins, Nina Mae McKinney, Erno Verebes, Bobby Watson, Georgia Backus, Ian Wolfe, Bob Kortman, Joe Whitehead, Bob Stevenson, Buddy Roosevelt, Frank O’Connor, Rex Lease, Ethan Laidlaw, Russ Kaplan, Shep Houghton, Stuart Holmes, Earle Hodgins, Len Hendry, William Haade, Kit Guard, Maxine Gates, Julia Faye, Alan Dinehart III, Hank Bell, Trevor Bardette, Stanley Andrews, Richard Alexander, and Erville Alderson.

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