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Vera Cruz was also the first production to use the SuperScope widescreen process, which was designed to achieve anamorphic prints from standard flat 35mm negatives. [13] Shot at a conventional 1.37:1 aspect ratio, the film was cropped to 2:1 in post-production, given a CinemaScope -compatible (2x) squeeze, and blown up to normal frame height.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 3 Ring Circus: Joseph Pevney: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joanne Dru: Musical comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Richard Fleischer
In 1950, Darcel had a Vaudeville act, which was panned by at least one reviewer. About Darcel's performance 5 May 1950, at the Strand in New York, the Billboard review said: "Denise Darcel showed her well-stacked chassis ... but her heavily accented English sounded like so much gibberish; it got laughs instead of attention. ... her singing is inadequate, her over-use of hands and arms is ...
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick auteur [1] working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed mainly films noir, war movies, westerns and dark melodramas with Gothic overtones.
He was then cast as George Taggart, "a former gunfighter who has become a U.S. marshal", in the 1963–1964 NBC/WB series Temple Houston. [ 19 ] In 1966 Jack Elam was cast in his first comedic role by Paramount Pictures , playing Hank in the Western film The Night of the Grizzly starring Clint Walker . [ 20 ]
They followed it with another Western in 1954, Vera Cruz, co-starring Gary Cooper and produced by Hill. Both films were directed by Robert Aldrich and were hugely popular. United Artists signed Hecht-Lancaster to a multi-picture contract, to make seven films over two years. [ 23 ]
Aldrich subsequently directed Hecht-Lancaster's next film, Vera Cruz. [14] The film earned $3.25 million in American and Canadian rentals during 1954, [15] and it went on to generate total gross receipts of $10 million in the United States and Canada. [3] In France, the film sold 1,216,098 tickets at the box office. [16]
The White Orchid is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Reginald Le Borg and written by Le Borg and David Duncan. The film stars William Lundigan, Peggie Castle, Armando Silvestre, Rosenda Monteros and Jorge Treviño. The film was released in November 1954 by United Artists. [1] [2] [3]