Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain (1950)

Gun-violence echoes across the Dangerland of the West!

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.

Date of release
1950-11-11
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Adventure, Western
Director
William Keighley

Casting

Interesting facts

Rocky Mountain is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Keighley and starring Errol Flynn. It also stars Patrice Wymore, who married Flynn in 1950. The film is set in California near the end of the American Civil War.

Production

The film was originally titled Ghost Mountain, the title of the original story by Alan Le May. Ronald Reagan badly wanted to do a Western at the time and said that Jack Warner promised he could star in one if the actor found an ideal story. Reagan claimed he discovered Ghost Story and helped negotiate its purchase by Warners through his agent, MCA. Warner Bros.

In March 1950 Ghost Mountain was put on Warners' schedule. By April the film was retitled Rocky Mountain and Flynn was given the lead role over Reagan, to the latter's annoyance, as he felt he had brought the story to the studio. Reagan left Warner Bros soon afterwards. (Flynn had meant to do another Western, Carson City, but it was felt that script was not as ready.) Winston Miller was brought in to write the script.

In May Lauren Bacall was assigned to play the female lead under her contract with Warner Bros but turned it down and was suspended as a result. Bacall said at the time:

I turned it down because it's just not a part. It's kind of nothing. I'm not angry, I'm just incredulous. I've never been offered a role like this before. I don't want to do it and they shouldn't have to pay me. I shouldn't imagine they'll have any trouble replacing me.

Bacall was replaced by Patrice Wymore, a dancer who had recently been put under contract to Warners. By July, Bacall terminated her contract with Warners.

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