Nevada Smith (1966)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

Harold Robbins (novel)
John Michael Hayes (story)
(más)

Release Date:

10 junio 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Frase comercial:

Some called him savage- and some called him saint... some felt his hate- and one found his love... and three had to die...

Plot:

A naive half-Indian, half-white man evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.

Plot Keywords:

Prison Break | Rocky Mountains | Sheriff | Canned Peaches | Priest

Awards:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Harold Robbins Western sleaze saved by McQueen and Hathaway.

Cast

Steve McQueen	...	Nevada Smith / Max Sand / Fitch
Karl Malden	...	Tom Fitch
Brian Keith	...	Jonas Cord
Arthur Kennedy	...	Bill Bowdre
Suzanne Pleshette	...	Pilar
Raf Vallone	...	Father Zaccardi
Janet Margolin	...	Neesa
Pat Hingle	...	Big Foot (work camp trustee)
Howard Da Silva	...	Warden of work camp
Martin Landau	...	Jesse Coe
Paul Fix	...	Sheriff Bonnell
Gene Evans	...	Sam Sand
Josephine Hutchinson	...	Mrs. Elvira McCandles
John Doucette	...	Uncle Ben McCandles
Val Avery	...	Buck Mason (bartender)
Sheldon Allman	...	Sheriff
Lyle Bettger	...	Jack Rudabough
Bert Freed	...	Quince
David McLean	...	Romero
Steve Mitchell	...	Buckshot
Merritt Bohn	...	River Boat Pilot
Sandy Kenyon	...	Clerk in bank
Ric Roman	...	Cipriano
John Lawrence	...	Hogg
Stanley Adams	...	Storekeeper
George Mitchell	...	Paymaster
John Litel	...	Doctor
Ted de Corsia	...	Hudson (bartender)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Frank Christi	...	Prisoner (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody	...	Taka-Ta (uncredited)
Walt Davis	...	Prisoner (uncredited)
L.Q. Jones	...	Cowboy (uncredited)
Strother Martin	...	Strother (uncredited)
Joanna Cook Moore	...	Angie (saloon girl) (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre	...	Roulette dealer (uncredited)
Roy N. Sickner	...	Harry (uncredited)
Ralph Volkie	...	Prisoner (uncredited)
Edy Williams	...	Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Henry Wills	...	Fitch man (uncredited)
Dick Winslow	...	Prisoner (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Henry Hathaway

Créditos del guión
Harold Robbins		(novel "The Carpetbaggers")
John Michael Hayes		(story)
John Michael Hayes		(screenplay)

Producida por
Henry Hathaway	....	producer
Joseph E. Levine	....	executive producer

Música original por
Alfred Newman

Fotografía por
Lucien Ballard

Montaje por
Frank Bracht

Dirección artística
Tambi Larsen
Hal Pereira
Al Roelofs

Decorados
Robert R. Benton		(as Robert Benton)

Diseño de vestuario por
Frank Beetson Jr.

Departamento de maquillaje
Nellie Manley	....	hair styles supervisor
Wally Westmore	....	makeup supervisor
Del Acevedo	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Dirección de producción
Herbert Coleman	....	unit production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Joseph Lenzi	....	assistant director
Daniel McCauley	....	assistant director (as Daniel J. McCauley)

Art Department
Gene Lauritzen	....	construction coordinator (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Charles Grenzbach	....	sound recordist
Harold Lewis	....	sound recordist

Efectos especiales
Paul K. Lerpae	....	special photographic effects
George C. Thompson	....	special effects (uncredited)

Especialistas
Eli Bo Jack Blackfeather	....	stunts (uncredited)
May Boss	....	stunts (uncredited)
Gary Combs	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Gatlin	....	stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward	....	stunts (uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy	....	stunts (uncredited)
Loren Janes	....	stunts (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	....	stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson	....	stunts (uncredited)
Victor Romito	....	stunts (uncredited)
Roy N. Sickner	....	stunts (uncredited)
Henry Wills	....	stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Jack Hayes	....	orchestrator
Leo Shuken	....	orchestrator

Otros miembros del equipo
Joseph E. Levine	....	presenter

Production Companies

• Solar Productions

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1966) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paramount (1966) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (1968) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1969) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Spain) S.L. (2003) (Spain) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD) (widescreen)
• Paramount Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Paramount (1966) (France) (theatrical)

También conocida como:

Nevada Smith (Spain) [es]

Duración:

128 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 (cut) (1966) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (1988) | UK:A (1966) (cut) | Australia:M | Norway:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Company:

Solar Productions

Trivialidades:

In the scene in the cattle pens when Max (Steve McQueen) fights Jessie Coe (Martin Landau), Max crouches behind a fence and opens the gate to let the cattle out. Some cattle come out the gate while others knock down the fence, and Max must dodge the flailing legs and hooves of the stampeding cattle. The knocking down of the fence was accidental, and McQueen was very nearly trampled for real. Shots of Max rolling clear of the hooves were added when it was decided to use the accidental footage.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Keith is teaching McQueen poker and McQueen pulls the gun on him, Keith's gun vanishes from his right hand between shots and the whiskey bottle changes from his left hand to his right.

Quotes:

Jonas Cord: [Cord shoots a bottle out of the air] Now you get so you can do that with either hand, when you're half-drunk, or half-awake, or inside of a dark room, off the back of a running horse, you might stand a chance. A small chance.
Nevada Smith: Would you teach me?
Jonas Cord: I sell guns, I don't teach killing.
Nevada Smith: Then I'll learn myself.
Jonas Cord: You won't live that long.
Nevada Smith: Well thank you for the food and advice, Mr. Cord. I guess I'll be on my way.
Jonas Cord: Where to? How? What with? Even if I did teach you something, that's only half of it. When you're looking for them three men, you gotta live, don't you? You gotta eat. You need clothes, food, horses, saddles, guns, ammunition, money. How you gonna get that? Tracking beaver on Sundays? I'll tell you how you'll get it. You'll wind up stealing, and killing, and turn yourself into the same kind of animal you're trying to track down. Can't you see that?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005) (TV)

Harold Robbins Western sleaze saved by McQueen and Hathaway.

This sidebar story from Harold Robbins THE CARPETBAGGERS was given class treatment by Paramount as a vehicle for McQueen, who lends some authenticity to a rather routine character motivated by a quest to avenge the brutal slaying of his parents at the beginning of the picture. Henry Hathaway lends visual elegance to what's basically a drawn-out, seedy revenge tale. Alfred Newman provides the rousing music. Moderately engaging.