Powder River (1953)
- Directed by
- Louis King
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A fictionalized version of the Wyatt Earp story set in a town called Powder River. A lawman tries to keep order while facing outlaws and personal conflicts.
classicold-weststorieddramaticpacedcharacter-drivenfictionalized
What happens
Powder River is a 1953 American Western film directed by Louis King and starring Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet and Cameron Mitchell. The screenplay was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (under his pseudonym "Geoffrey Homes") from the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake, who two years later was the story consultant on the ABC/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. Unlike that television series, names and places in this film were given fictional names, so that Earp became "Chino Bull," Doc Holliday became "Mitch Hardin," the Clanton brothers became the "Logan Brothers," and Tombstone became the titular "Powder River." This was the fourth film based on Lake's book to be released by 20th Century Fox, preceded by the 1934 Frontier Marshal, the identically titled 1939 Frontier Marshal, and the 1946 My Darling Clementine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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