A strange film on which to find Dimitri Tiomkin's name as producer, especially as the music itself was by Quincey Jones. The credits proudly declare this 'Carl Foreman' MacKenna's Gold'; but it would be more apt to call that a confession since despite frequently spectacular location work by Joseph MacDonald much of the dialogue is plainly staged on studio sets and some of the special effects work is absolutely atrocious.
This star-studded, kill-happy attempt by J. Lee Thompson to emulate a spaghetti western features an extraordinary cast ranging from Gregory Peck to Edward G. Robinson, Omar Shariff and Keenan Wynn as Mexican bandits wearing sombreros as wide as their grins, Telly Savalas strangely cast as a cavalry commander, while Raymond Massey quotes the bible as a religious zealot.
As the heroine Camilla Sparv wears the usual anachronistically tight britches; while Julie Newmar's return to the western genre fifteen years after 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' as an Indian squaw (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) seen skinny-dipping provides some compensation for this film being responsible for her unavailability to appear in Season Three of 'Batman'.
This star-studded, kill-happy attempt by J. Lee Thompson to emulate a spaghetti western features an extraordinary cast ranging from Gregory Peck to Edward G. Robinson, Omar Shariff and Keenan Wynn as Mexican bandits wearing sombreros as wide as their grins, Telly Savalas strangely cast as a cavalry commander, while Raymond Massey quotes the bible as a religious zealot.
As the heroine Camilla Sparv wears the usual anachronistically tight britches; while Julie Newmar's return to the western genre fifteen years after 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' as an Indian squaw (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) seen skinny-dipping provides some compensation for this film being responsible for her unavailability to appear in Season Three of 'Batman'.