83%User score 83 percent
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024 · Action · Adventure
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215 votes
A Giant of a movie
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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John Chard
May 28, 2017
How to succeed by failing big? Mackenna's Gold is directed by J. Lee Thompson and adapted for the screen by Carl Foreman from a novel of the same name written by Henry Wilson Allen (AKA: Heck Allen, Henry Allen & Will Henry!), which in turn is loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings. It stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy & Telly Savalas. It's photographed by Josep…
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Wuchak
February 2, 2019
***Entertaining, but comic booky 1969 Western with a superlative cast*** "MacKenna's Gold" (1969) deals with the insanity of ‘gold fever’ and builds-up a good amount of anticipation concerning the secret gold canyon. Does it exist or doesn’t it? Western expert Brian Garfield (author of "Death Wish") commented on "MacKenna's Gold" in his outstanding book "Western Films" thusly: "it hasn't a single redeeming quality. I…
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