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Directed by | Ford Beebe |
Screenplay by | Daniel B Ullman Ron Ormond |
Based on | story by Ullman |
Produced by | Ron Ormond associate Ira Webb June Carr |
Cinematography | Ernest Miller |
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Distributed by | Screen Guild Productions |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Texas Manhunt, also known as Red Desert, is a 1949 American Western film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Don "Red" Barry and Tom Neal.[1][2]
Cast
[edit]- Don Barry as Pecos Jones
- Tom Neal as John Williams
- Jack Holt as Deacon Smith
- Margia Dean as Hazel Carter
- Joseph Crehan as President Ulysses S. Grant
- Byron Foulger as Sparky Jackson, also known as Lefty Jordan
- John Cason as Bob Horn
- Tom London as Col. McMasters
- Holly Bane as Barton
Producer
[edit]The film stars Margia Dean, who recalled "Don Barry was very nice, pleasant and polite to me. But, he was short. And that can create something of a problem. Tom Neal was in it, and I found him to be the serious, brooding type." She says Holt was in the film because producer Robert L Lippert "was good about using once-big names who were a little past their prime!... It was my first leading lady, but still a thankless part. You go in early in the morning for hair and makeup; then are driven a long ways to a dusty, hot, sticky location. At dusk, they take the leading lady's close-up—just when she's grimy! (Laughs) Those tight corsets and five pounds of wigs were all uncomfortable—as were those stagecoach rides—which were so bumpy! (Laughs)".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "MOVIEL AND BRIEFS". Los Angeles Times. June 23, 1949. ProQuest 165971937.
- ^ "RED DESERT". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 21. 1954. p. 163. ProQuest 1305824158.
- ^ "Margia Dean Interview".
External links
[edit]- Red Desert at IMDb
- Texas Manhunt at the TCM Movie Database
- Red Desert at the British Film Institute[better source needed]