Cripple Creek (1952)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Ray Nazarro

Writer:

Richard Schayer (writer)

Release Date:

1 July 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

THE WEST'S CROSSROADS OF VIOLENCE AND FURY! (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.

Plot Keywords:

Gold

Cast

George Montgomery	...	Bret Ivers aka Iverson
Karin Booth	...	Juliana 'Julie' Hanson
Jerome Courtland	...	Larry Galland
William Bishop	...	Silver Kirby
Richard Egan	...	Strap Galland alias Gillis
Don Porter	...	Denver Jones
John Dehner	...	Emil Cabeau
Roy Roberts	...	Marshal John Tetheroe
George Cleveland	...	'Hardrock' Hanson

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #15499) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Edward Small Productions

Quotes:

Undertaker Hawkins: Very sad affair...but it's the best night's business we've had for some time. I can make a very attractive club rate for six.
Marshal John Tetheroe: Well, Silver, you can lock up now. The corpus delicti have been identified and Hawkins here offers a very good club rate -- six coffins, no flowers, no mourners.

SOLID WESTERN ENTERTAINMENT

George Montgomery, Jerome Courtland and Richard Egan are undercover agents in the old west trying to break a gold smuggling ring working out of the town of Cripple Creek.

This is good, solid western entertainment. It's a buddy- western, shoot-em-up, fist-fight, and midnight rides type movie. I found it to be well paced, written and acted. It has some plot twists that make it more adultish than the usual kid-western fodder.

For the western movie fan, there's alot of other familiar faces among the cast, and everyone gives a fine performance.

This has been on Encore's Western Channel. Catch it if you can without commercials, it's so much better.