''The Wild Westerners'' is a 1962 American
Western
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film directed by
Oscar Rudolph
Oscar Rudolph (April 2, 1911 – February 1, 1991) was an American film and television director, producer, and actor.
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Rudolph was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1924 moved to Southern California with his family. He started hi ...
and starring
James Philbrook
James Philbrook was an American actor who appeared in several major films, including ''I Want to Live!'' (1958), ''Woman Obsessed'' and as Colonel Tall in the 1964 war picture '' The Thin Red Line''. He had supporting roles on television, includi ...
,
Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack (born March 11, 1935) is a retired American film and television actress.
Early years
Kovack is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kovack of Flint, Michigan. Her father was the manager of a General Motors plant. She enrolled a ...
,
Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American rock and roll guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" sound, including "Rebel- ...
and
Guy Mitchell
Guy Mitchell (born Albert George Cernik; February 22, 1927 – July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer and actor, successful in his homeland, the UK, and Australia. He sold 44 million records, including six million-selling singles.
In the fal ...
.
[WILD WESTERNERS, The
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 29, Iss. 336, (Jan 1, 1962): 158.]
Plot
A U.S. marshal investigates when a sheriff named Plummer is suspected of involvement in a string of robberies. It becomes personal when the marshal's wife is taken captive by the outlaws.
Cast
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James Philbrook
James Philbrook was an American actor who appeared in several major films, including ''I Want to Live!'' (1958), ''Woman Obsessed'' and as Colonel Tall in the 1964 war picture '' The Thin Red Line''. He had supporting roles on television, includi ...
as Marshal Jim McDowell
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Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack (born March 11, 1935) is a retired American film and television actress.
Early years
Kovack is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kovack of Flint, Michigan. Her father was the manager of a General Motors plant. She enrolled a ...
as Rose Sharon
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Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American rock and roll guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" sound, including "Rebel- ...
as Deputy Marshal Clint Fallon
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Guy Mitchell
Guy Mitchell (born Albert George Cernik; February 22, 1927 – July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer and actor, successful in his homeland, the UK, and Australia. He sold 44 million records, including six million-selling singles.
In the fal ...
as Deputy Johnny Silver
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Hugh Sanders
Hugh Howard Sanders (March 13, 1911 – January 9, 1966) was an American actor, probably best known for playing the role of Dr. Reynolds in the movie ''To Kill a Mockingbird''.
Biography
Born in Illinois, Sanders graduated from Northwestern U ...
as Chief Marshal Reuben Bernard
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Elizabeth MacRae
Elizabeth Hendon MacRae (born February 22, 1936) is an American actress who performed in dozens of television series and in nine feature films, working predominantly in productions released between 1958 and the late 1980s. Among her more widel ...
as Crystal Plummer
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Marshall Reed
Marshall Jewel Reed (May 28, 1917 – April 15, 1980) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978. He was born in Englewood, Colorado.
Early years
Reed's parents were Walter George Reed and Ruth Dustin. By a ...
as Sheriff Plummer
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Nestor Paiva
Nestor Paiva (June 30, 1905 – September 9, 1966) was an American actor of Portuguese descent. He is most famous for his recurring role of Teo Gonzales the innkeeper in Walt Disney's Spanish Western series ''Zorro'' and its feature film ''The ...
as Governor John Bullard
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Harry Lauter
Herman Arthur "Harry" Lauter (June 19, 1914 – October 30, 1990) was an American character actor.
Early years
Lauter was born in White Plains, New York. He worked as a model for a professional photographer and was a rodeo rider before m ...
as Jud Gotch
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Bob Steele as Deputy Marshal Casey Bannen
* Lisa Burkett as Yellow Moon
*
Terry Frost
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...
as Ashley Cartwright
* Hans Wedemeyer as Wasna
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Don Harvey as Hanna
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Elizabeth Harrower as Martha Bernard
Soundtrack
''The Wild Westerners''
Written by Duane Eddy and
Lee Hazlewood
Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s ...
Performed by Duane Eddy
Eddy's song was released with the flip side being ''
The Ballad of Paladin
"The Ballad of Paladin" is a song written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe and performed by Duane Eddy. The song reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 33 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1962. Members of the Western Writer ...
'' from ''
Have Gun, Will Travel''.
See also
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List of American films of 1962
A list of American films released in 1962.
''Lawrence of Arabia'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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References
External links
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1962 films
American Western (genre) films
1960s English-language films
1962 Western (genre) films
Columbia Pictures films
1960s American films
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