''Fort Ti'' is a 1953 American 3-D

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film directed by

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, and starring George Montgomery and

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. Written by

Robert E. Kent Robert E. Kent (August 31, 1911 in Canal Zone, Panama – December 11, 1984 in Los Angeles) was an American film writer and film producer. Career Kent began as a rapid screenwriter for Sam Katzman at Columbia. For seven years he worked as a ...

, the film is the first Western to be released in 3-D and the first 3-D feature to be released in

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by a major studio. ''Fort Ti'' was distributed by

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in the United States. The film is set in 1759 at

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during the

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Premise

As war is raging across 18th-century colonial America, a band of famed native fighters join British forces for an assault on a French stronghold.

Cast

* George Montgomery as Capt. Jedediah Horn *

as Fortune Mallory *

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as Sgt. Monday Wash *

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as Mark Chesney *

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as François Leroy * Phyllis Fowler as Running Otter *

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as Maj.

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as Bess Chesney *

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as Lord

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as Capt. Delecroix *

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as Raoul de Moreau *

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as Jed's nephew (uncredited)

Production

says Sam Katzman was inspired to make the film by the success of ''

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''. Castle says he "decided to throw every goddamn thing I could think of at the camera" in the movie. 3-D supervision was by M.L. Gunzburg, creator of the Natural Vision 3-D system that had initiated the 3-D boom, previously used on ''

'' and '' House of Wax''. The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location in

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and

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Box office

''Fort Ti'' earned an estimated $2.6 million domestically during its first year of release."The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", ''Variety'', January 13, 1954

Legacy

In 1982, ''Fort Ti'' became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United Kingdom. The following year, it became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United States along with the

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3-D short ''

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''.

References

External links

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