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The Purple Hills (1961)

The Purple Hills poster
Directed by
Maury Dexter
Genre
western
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in the Old West gets caught up in a conflict over land and treasure. He has to decide who to trust as tensions rise around him.

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What happens

The Purple Hills (originally titled "The Vanishing Frontier") is a 1961 American Western film directed by Maury Dexter and written by Russ Bender and Edith Cash Pearl. The film stars Gene Nelson, Kent Taylor, Danny Zapien, Medford Salway, Russ Bender and Joanna Barnes. The film was released in November 1961, by 20th Century Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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