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The Naked Hills(1956)
Status: Released
Date: 1956-06-17
46%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 12m
Overview:
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Allied Artists Pictures
La Salle Productions
Movie: The Naked Hills
Top 10 Billed Cast
David Wayne
Tracy Powell
Keenan Wynn
Sam Wilkins
James Barton
Jimmo McCann
Marcia Henderson
Julie
Jim Backus
Willis Haver
Denver Pyle
Bert Killian / Narrator
Myrna Dell
Aggie
Lewis L. Russell
Baxter
Frank Fenton
Harold
Fuzzy Knight
Pitch Man
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Overview
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
Release Date
1956-06-17
Average
4.6
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