Garden of Evil (1954)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

Fred Freiberger (story) and
William Tunberg (story) ...
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Release Date:

9 julio 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Romance | Western

Plot:

Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore...

Plot Keywords:

Ingratitude | Self Sacrifice | Gold Mine | Crucifixion | Broken Leg

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Where is the DVD?

Cast

Gary Cooper	...	Hooker
Susan Hayward	...	Leah Fuller
Richard Widmark	...	Fiske
Hugh Marlowe	...	John Fuller
Cameron Mitchell	...	Luke Daly
Rita Moreno	...	Cantina Singer
Víctor Manuel Mendoza	...	Vicente Madariaga
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Antonio Bribiesca	...	Antonio, bartenter / guitar player at Puerto Miguel (uncredited)
Manuel Dondé	...	Cantina Waiter (uncredited)
Arturo Soto Rangel	...	Priest (uncredited)
Salvador Terroba	...	Victim (uncredited)
Fernando Wagner	...	Steamboat Captain (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Henry Hathaway

Créditos del guión
Fred Freiberger		(story) and
William Tunberg		(story)
Frank Fenton		(screenplay)

Producida por
Charles Brackett	....	producer
Saul Wurtzel	....	associate producer

Música original por
Bernard Herrmann

Fotografía por
Milton R. Krasner
Jorge Stahl Jr.

Montaje por
James B. Clark

Dirección artística
Edward Fitzgerald
Lyle R. Wheeler		(as Lyle Wheeler)

Decorados
Pablo Galván

Diseño de vestuario por
Travilla

Departamento de maquillaje
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist
Helen Turpin	....	hair stylist

Ayudante de dirección
Stanley Hough	....	assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Nicolás de la Rosa	....	sound (as Nicholas de la Rosa Jr.)
Roger Heman Sr.	....	sound (as Roger Heman)

Efectos especiales
Ray Kellogg	....	special photographic effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Charles Le Maire	....	wardrobe director

Music Department
Bernard Herrmann	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
'Chema' Hernandez	....	head wrangler (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1954) (USA) (theatrical)
• Centfox (1954) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1961) (USA) (TV) (original airing) (pan/scan)
• KOCH Media Deutschland GmbH (2005) (Germany) (DVD)

También conocida como:

Jardín del diablo, El (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min | USA:96 min (FMC Library Print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | Mono (Western Electric Recording) (35 mm optical prints)

Clasificación:

Germany:12 | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #16963, General Audience)

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Goofs:

Factual errors: The guns being used belong to the period from about 1870 to 1880. If this film was set during the California gold rush period of 1849 the weapons should all be percussion cap and black powder. Repeating rifles weren't developed until late in the civil war.

Quotes:

Hooker: A cross isn't a bad thing to see...it can be beautiful. And everybody has one.

Soundtrack:

Aqui

Where is the DVD?

The previous well done assessment of this film needs little further comment, except why has it not been put back into the loop as a wide-screen DVD? This movie is not one which plays often on the TV; I cannot recall having seen it in the last 30 years. The film and cast are excellent. Perhaps the film's flaw is the fact that it is not very well know as compared to some of the nonsense served up by John Wayne. Gary Cooper has made some really great films, and this is certainly one of them. Susan Hayward is always a delight for the eyes, and the Mexican scenery is most imposing. The one image which remains strongest in the mind about this movie is how, when, and where the Indians, single out which members of the rescue party are to be killed (one by one). I hope the industry which provides us with new DVD's every Tuesday will finally wake up and put this fine piece of work out on the shelf for sale where it belongs.