Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles. It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 and Technicolor by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones.
Plot
An old legend tells of a fortune in gold hidden in the "Cañon del Oro" ("Canyon of Gold"), later called the "Lost Adams", guarded by Apache spirits. A man named Adams is said to have found it when he was young, only to have the Native Americans capture and blind him. Years later, Marshal MacKenna is ambushed by an old Native American shaman named Prairie Dog, and is forced to kill him. MacKenna thereby comes into possession of a map to the treasure. He examines it before burning it.
More details
| author | Carl Foreman Henry Wilson Allen |
|---|---|
| director | J. Lee Thompson |
| editor | Bill Lenny |
| genre | western |
| keywords | abandon ambush apache apache tribe arrest burn dwell forced to kill kill la vie parisienne morning native american reject return home rid rock star search shadow shout their way |
| musicBy | Quincy Jones |
| producer | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| productionCompany | Highroad Productions, Inc. |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |