10 WENT IN...7 CAME OUT...as the Walking Hills guarded their treasure!
Director: John Sturges
Producer: Randolph Scott, Harry Joe Brown
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
78 min
Rating: 6/10
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Top Cast
Randolph Scott
Jim Carey
Ella Raines
Chris Jackson
William Bishop
Dave "Shep" Wilson
Edgar Buchanan
Old Willy
Arthur Kennedy
Chalk
John Ireland
Frazee
Movie Info
Director: John Sturges
Producer: Randolph Scott, Harry Joe Brown
Production Companies: Producers-Actors Corporation, Columbia Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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John Chard:
Like shovelling sand into the wind.
The Walking Hills is directed by John Sturges and written by Alan LeMay. It stars Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, Edgar Buchanan, John Ireland, William Bishop, Josh White and Jerome Courtland. Music is by Arthur Morton and cinematography by Charles Lawton Jr.
Upon hearing a chance statement about lost gold, a disparate group of people head out in search of it to the desert plains of The Walking Hills...
Whipping up a sandstorm.
A sort of contemporary Western film noir fusion, The Walking Hills is a darn fine drama that is acted accordingly. Though blessed with action, tension and passion, it's as a character study where the picture excels. True enough to say it's not overly complex stuff, the greed is bad motif a standard narrative strand, as is the tricky love triangle that resides within the sandy tale, but with the wily Sturges and the shrewd LeMay pulling the strings this plays out always as compelling. With the great Lawton Jr. adding his considerable skills as a photographer - ensuring the Alabama Hills and Death Valley locations are key characters themselves - the production shines.
Often mentioned in reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it of course is not as good as that superb picture. That it earns its right to be considered a baby brother to it, though, is testament to its worth in itself. 7/10