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The Hallelujah Trail
''The Hallelujah Trail'' is a 1965 American Western mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin. It was based on the book of the same title (originally released as "The Hallelujah Train") by Bill Gulick in 1963. The film was one of several large-scale widescreen, long-form "epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like ''The Great Race'' and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre. Its running time is 2 hours, 45 minutes. The film is part of a group, which were filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in selected theaters via the oversized Super Cinerama process. Stuntman Bill Williams was killed on November 13, 1964, while performing a stunt involving a wagon going over a cliff. The scene was kept in the movie. On October 19, 1968, three years and four months after its release, the film had its television premiere in a three-hour timeslot on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McGinnis
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers,BiographyMcGinnis, Robert - Cavalier Galleries and over 40 movie posters, including '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (his first film poster assignment),Jilbert, Paul. - Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970sNew DVD Documentary on Legendary Movie Poster Artist Robert McGinnis" - Cinema Retro. - May 13, 2008 '' Barbarella'', and several James Bond and Matt Helm films. Biography Born Robert Edward McGinnis in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was raised in Wyoming, Ohio. McGinnis became an apprentice at Walt Disney Studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University. After wartime service in the Merchant Marine he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers for books written by such authors as Donald West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
