Garden of Evil (1954)

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Genre

Western film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman hires four fortune seekers to rescue her husband from a collapsed mine in 19th century Mexico. They face danger and mistrust while traveling through a harsh landscape.

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What happens

Garden of Evil is a 1954 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Henry Hathaway about three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper as an ex-lawman, Richard Widmark as a gambler, and Cameron Mitchell as a bounty hunter, who, along with Vicente, played by Víctor Manuel Mendoza, are hired by a woman (Susan Hayward) to rescue her husband (Hugh Marlowe), who is trapped in a collapsed mine. Rita Moreno appears at the beginning of the film as a Mexican cantina singer/dancer. Director Hathaway took special pains to use the stunning vistas of the Mexican locations to show off the CinemaScope screen dimensions to best effect. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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