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Cripple Creek is a 1952 American western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring George Montgomery, Jerome Courtland and Karin Booth. [1] It was produced by Edward Small for release by Columbia Pictures .
Cripple Creek Bar-room Scene; Poker at Dawson City; These two films were produced by Edison's Black Maria and have been argued to be the first Western films. [6] A Bluff from a Tenderfoot; Filmed by Frederick S. Armitage for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, this depicts a poker game. [7]
The film is set at a gold mining camp in Cripple Creek, Colorado where it was filmed. [1] It begins as a man knocks on the door of a miner's cabin on Bennett Avenue. A kind and generous woman answers and offers the man food. He demands money and kills the woman after she refuses.
In 1975, Alex Karras portrayed George Zaharias in the TV movie Babe, (opposite his future wife, actress Susan Clark), which told the story of Didrikson, who won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics and returned to become a champion golfer, her battles to be accepted as a woman in a man's sports world, and her fight against ...
Winfield Scott Stratton (July 22, 1848 – September 14, 1902) was an American prospector, capitalist, and philanthropist.He discovered the Independence Lode near Victor, Colorado on July 4, 1891, and became the Cripple Creek Mining District's first millionaire in 1894.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... "Cripple Creek" by Skip Spence on the album Oar; Films. Cripple Creek, a 1952 Western
Marshal of Cripple Creek is a 1947 American Western film in the Red Ryder film series directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Earle Snell. The film stars Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Trevor Bardette, Tom London and Roy Barcroft. The film was released on August 15, 1947, by Republic Pictures. [1] [2] [3]
John Calderwood was a Scottish-born American miner, and influential labor union leader, who led miners organized by the Western Federation of Miners to victory in the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894. Little is known about his parentage or life.