Six Black Horses
1962 film by Harry Keller
- March 9, 1962 (1962-03-09) (Los Angeles)
- March 28, 1962 (1962-03-28) (San Francisco)
- April 24, 1962 (1962-04-24) (United States)
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Six Black Horses is a 1962 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea and Joan O'Brien.[2]
Plot
Ben Lane (Audie Murphy) is breaking a horse in the desert that he believes to be stray. He is caught by some ranchers who treat him as a horse thief when he is saved by Frank Jesse (Dan Duryea). Lane and Jesse are hired by Kelly (Joan O'Brien), who offers to pay them $1,000 each to take her to a town to be with her husband. In reality, she is setting up Jesse because he killed her husband in a shootout. A unique part of the film is that Lane rescues a collie dog that goes with him everywhere, including riding the pack horse.
Cast
- Audie Murphy as Ben Lane
- Dan Duryea as Frank Jesse
- Joan O'Brien as Kelly
- George Wallace as Will Boone
- Roy Barcroft as Mustanger
- Bob Steele as Puncher
- Henry Wills as Indian leader
- Phil Chambers as Undertaker
- Charlita as Mexican dancer (as Charlita Regis)
- Dale Van Sickel as Man
Production
Universal hired Burt Kennedy to write an original film script. Kennedy said he wrote it with Richard Widmark in mind.[3]
Parts of the film were shot at Snow Canyon and Leeds in Utah.[4]
Comic book adaption
See also
References
- ^ Don Graham, No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy, Penguin, 1989 p 291
- ^ Six Black Horses at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
- ^ Joyner, C. Courtney (2009). The Westerners: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers. McFarland. p. 135. ISBN 9780786455683.
- ^ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
- ^ Dell Movie Classic: Six Black Horses at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Dell Movie Classic: Six Black Horses at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links
- Six Black Horses at IMDb
- Six Black Horses at the TCM Movie Database
- Six Black Horses at Letterboxd
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Films of Harry Keller
- The Blonde Bandit (1949)
- Tarnished (1950)
- Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)
- Desert of Lost Men (1951)
- Rose of Cimarron (1952)
- Leadville Gunslinger (1952)
- Black Hills Ambush (1952)
- Thundering Caravans (1952)
- Marshal of Cedar Rock (1953)
- Savage Frontier (1953)
- Bandits of the West (1953)
- El Paso Stampede (1953)
- Red River Shore (1953)
- Phantom Stallion (1954)
- The Unguarded Moment (1956)
- Man Afraid (1957)
- Quantez (1957)
- The Female Animal (1958)
- Day of the Badman (1958)
- Voice in the Mirror (1958)
- Step Down to Terror (1958)
- Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
- Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
- Six Black Horses (1962)
- Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
- The Brass Bottle (1964)
- In Enemy Country (1968)
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