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Nevada Smith (1966)

Nevada Smith poster
Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Genre
drama film, Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 08m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 191 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young man sets out to track down the three men who killed his parents. He becomes a rugged survivor in the Old West and encounters the man who will later become his business partner.

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What happens

Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette. The film was made by Solar Productions in association with and released by Paramount Pictures. The movie is a prequel to The Carpetbaggers, a highly successful film from two years earlier based on the 1961 Harold Robbins novel. In that film, Alan Ladd played an older version of Nevada Smith, the character McQueen plays in this film. Nevada Smith depicts Smith's first meeting with another "Carpetbaggers" character, Jonas Cord Sr, and delves into Nevada Smith's background as summarized in a scene from the original film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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