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Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

6,6 /10 (213 Votes)
1969 EN 128 min

Overview

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

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Release date

18/03/1969

Votes

213

Popularity

2.3

A Giant of a movie

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

128 min

Budget

$7,000,000

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John Chard

John Chard

2017-05-28

⭐ 3

How to succeed by failing big? Mackenna's Gold is directed by J. Lee Thompson and adapted for the screen by Carl Foreman from a novel of the same name written by Henry Wilson Allen (AKA: Heck Allen, Henry Allen & Will Henry!), which in turn is loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings. It stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy & Telly Savalas. It's photographed by Joseph MacDonald in Technicolor and Super Panavision, with a music score by Quincy Jones. It begins so well, the credits inform us that not only do we get Peck, Sharif and Newmar…

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2019-02-02

⭐ 7

***Entertaining, but comic booky 1969 Western with a superlative cast*** "MacKenna's Gold" (1969) deals with the insanity of ‘gold fever’ and builds-up a good amount of anticipation concerning the secret gold canyon. Does it exist or doesn’t it? Western expert Brian Garfield (author of "Death Wish") commented on "MacKenna's Gold" in his outstanding book "Western Films" thusly: "it hasn't a single redeeming quality. It has got to be the most expensive star-studded two-hour ‘B’ movie ever made; a gargantuan dud of absolutely stunning dreadfulness." It hasn't a SINGLE redeeming quality? O…

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