Catlow

Catlow (1971)

The Mexican cavalry wanted him murdered. The Apache nation wanted him massacred. Texas ranchers wanted him mangled and his only hope was a Marshal, who wanted him hanged.

An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Date of release
1971-10-01
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Western, Comedy
Director
Sam Wanamaker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Catlow

Catlow is a 1971 American Western film, based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as Jed Catlow, a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a Confederate gold heist. It co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy mentioned this film in both of his autobiographies because it gave him a chance to break away from his role as Spock on Star Trek. He mentioned that the time he made the film was one of the happiest of his life, even though his part was rather brief. The film contains a lot of tongue-in-cheek and sardonic humor, especially between Brynner and Crenna's characters Catlow and Ben Cowan.

Production

The film was produced by Euan Lloyd, who had made a film of Louis L'Amour's novel Shalako. In June 1968, he announced he had bought the screen rights to another L'Amour novel, Catlow. The script was written by Scott Finch who had written Shalako. In June 1970, L'Amour said the film would be the first of five made from his novels starring Stephen Boyd, the others being Down the Long Hills, Flint, Radigan, and Hanging Woman Creek.

The film was to have been directed by Peter Hunt. However, Sam Wanamaker ended up doing the job. In March 1971, Yul Brynner signed to star. Within the month, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy and David Ladd had been cast. Filming took place in Almería, Spain in August 1971. "This picture has a sense of humour but that's not the same as being a comedy Western," said Wanamaker.

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