The Purple Hills (1961)
Every Indian arrow pointed to The Purple Hills where hate-for-hate and gun-for-gun scorched this land of treachery!
When a bounty hunter kills an outlaw for the reward, he has to deal with both a man falsely claiming he made the kill, and the revengeful brother of the dead man.
- Date of release
- 1961-10-31
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Maury Dexter
Casting
- Gene Nelson — Gil Shepard
- Kent Taylor — Johnny Barnes
- Danny Zapien — Chito
- Medford Salway — Young Brave
- Russ Bender — Deputy Marshal
- Joanna Barnes — Amy Carter
- Jerry Summers — Martin Beaumont
- Jack Carr — A.J. Beaumont
- Jack Riggs — Indian Chief (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Purple Hills is a 1961 American Western film directed by Maury Dexter and written by Russ Bender and Edith Cash Pearl. The film stars Gene Nelson, Kent Taylor, Danny Zapien, Medford Salway, Russ Bender and Joanna Barnes. The film was released in November 1961, by 20th Century Fox.
Production
The movie was one of the first three in a new eight-picture deal between API and 20th Century Fox, the others being Desire in the Dust and Freckles.
The Purple Hills was a remake of a 1915 film.
It was shot in Apacheland, Arizona. Dexter called it "a very simple little trek Western."
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