Black Bart

Black Bart (1948)

MASTER GUNMAN! LAWLESS LOVER!

Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.

Date of release
1948-02-17
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Western, Crime
Director
George Sherman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Utah

Black Bart is a 1948 American Western Technicolor film directed by George Sherman and starring Yvonne De Carlo, and Dan Duryea as the real-life stagecoach bandit Charles E. Boles, known as Black Bart. The movie was produced by Leonard Goldstein with a screenplay written by Luci Ward, Jack Natteford and William Bowers. The film, also known under the alternate title Black Bart, Highwayman, was released by Universal Pictures on March 3, 1948.

Production

The script is a highly fictionalized portrayal of real-life highwayman, Charles E. Boles, also known as Black Bart, who robbed several stagecoaches in Northern California and Southern Oregon between 1875 and 1883. Universal announced the film in June, 1946 and that Charles Korvin might be cast and the film would be titled Black Bart – Highwayman.

When Universal merged with International Pictures, the film was temporarily shelved, but was revived in January, 1947 under the title The Adventures of Black Bart. Luci Ward and Jack Natteford, who had written Badman's Territory, were assigned to write the script. Paul Malvern was initially named producer for the film but Leonard Goldstein eventually got the job, his first as a producer. George Sherma was assigned to direct.

In April, 1947, Universal announced the lead roles were to be played by Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, and Edmond O'Brien; O'Brien soon dropped out to appear in A Double Life and was replaced by Jeffrey Lynn who had just completed his long career at Warner Bros.

Portions of the movie were filmed in Utah at Kanab Canyon, Strawberry Valley, and Strawberry Point.

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