Desert Fury

Desert Fury (1947)

Two men wanted her love ... The third wanted her life !

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Date of release
1947-08-15
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lewis Allen

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Desert Fury is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen, and starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster. Its plot follows the daughter of a casino owner in a small Nevada town who becomes involved with a racketeer who was once suspected of murdering his wife. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen and A. I. Bezzerides (uncredited), adapted from the 1947 novel Desert Town by Ramona Stewart. The picture was produced by Hal Wallis, with music by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography in Technicolor by Edward Cronjager and Charles Lang.

Production

John Hodiak's casting alongside Lizabeth Scott was announced in July 1946. This was the first screen appearance of Wendell Corey, like Lancaster, a contracted discovery of producer Hal Wallis.

The majority of the film was shot on studio sets designed to appear as desert locales. The production had red sandstone and gravel transported from Arizona to Los Angeles for the set shooting. Some location shooting occurred in the small Ventura County, California, town of Piru, with the northwest side of Center Street, at Main, used as the exterior of Fritzi's saloon and casino; the Piru Mansion was used as the Haller home and the historic Piru…

Miklós Rózsa was hired to compose the film's original score, which he began composing in December 1946.

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