The Last Frontier (1955)

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• Места съёмок: Мексика

The Last Frontier is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, and Anne Bancroft. The film is set during the American Civil War at an isolated army base at the far reaches of the American frontier, where the Indians still far outnumber the whites.

Production

The film was originally known as The Gilded Rooster, the title of the 1947 novel on which the script was based. Film rights were acquired by Columbia in 1953. Marlon Brando was sought for the title role. The role was eventually given to Victor Mature who had just signed a two-picture deal with Columbia.

Filming was to have started in January 1955 but this was pushed back, in part so Mature could make Violent Saturday. Production began 21 March 1955 on location in Mexico. And in North America (I.E. background of fort and numerous shots in mountains. Locations unspecified.

Yordan says he rewrote the film coming up with the theme that the Mature character wanted to get into the army so he could woo a woman. "That's the whole picture—about a guy trying to get a blue uniform", he said.

Mann had made a film for Columbia, and the studio wanted the director to make another film for them. Mann selected Last Frontier. He said "I had a terrible time with Victor; he was very ill in Mexico. But it was a terrific idea, helluvan idea, the story of a savage who wants to earn a uniform and who finds out all the bad things about a uniform along with the good, and struggles, and finally wins it...

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