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MacKenna's Gold (1969)
June 19, 1969
The Screen: 'Mackenna's Gold' in Apache Country
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: June 19, 1969
"MACKENNA'S GOLD," a Western of truly stunning absurdity, is the work of J. Lee Thompson, a thriving example of that old Hollywood maxim about how to succeed by failing big. Thompson is the British director who once made a decent film, "Tiger Bay," then a popular one, "The Guns of Navarone," and after that a succession of unclassifiable things like "Taras Bulba," "What a Way to Go" and "Kings of the Sun," each of which was of an awfulness so compelling that producers couldn't seem to hire him fast enough.
As was "Navarone," this new movie was produced and written by Carl Foreman, who may be its real auteur, though it's hard to tell. "Mackenna's Gold" is so lacking in discipline and consistent visual style that there were times yesterday afternoon at Loew's State II, where the movie opened (as well as at Loew's Orpheum), that I suspected the dominant creative personality might have been Derek Frye's.
Frye is credited as the movie's sound supervisor, and the one thing the movie has in abundance is sound. It is sound so stereophonic — so all-surrounding — that, at the State, anyway, it dwarfs the screen and, at one point, gave me the distinct impression that a bunch of steers were stampeding near the ladies' room.
Foreman's screenplay is a horizontal narrative about a search for a legendary valley of gold held sacred by the Apaches. Although it is set in the Old West, it actually has the shape of French farce: various groups of characters pursuing each other in and out of ambushes in the kind of circular action so dear to Feydeau.
Most conspicuous in the film are Gregory Peck, a stoic sheriff, and Omar Sharif, a bandit who, in a nude scene appears to be turning to flab. They are supported by such people as Lee J. Cobb, Eduardo Ciannelli, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Eli Wallach, each of whom does a sort of stagger-on and then dies.
The structure of the movie is so loose that a narrator (Victor Jory) must be employed from time to time to explain the plot, as if it were a serial. Most surprising in a movie that obviously cost a good deal of money is the sloppy matching of exterior and studio photography with miniature work for special effects. I haven't been as unimpressed by a climactic movie earthquake since the gods became angry when Dorothy Lamour refused to be dumped into Paramount's backlot volcano in—if I remember correctly — "Aloma of the South Seas."
MACKENNA'S GOLD, screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on a novel by Will Henry; directed by J. Lee Thompson; produced by Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin; presented by Columbia Pictures. At Loew's State II Theater, Broadway and 45th Street, and Loew's Orpheum Theater, 86th Street at Third Avenue. Running time: 128 minutes.
Mackenna . . . . . Gregory Peck
Colorado . . . . . Omar Sharif
Sergeant Tibbs . . . . . Telly Savalas
Inga . . . . . Camilla Sparv
Sanchez . . . . . Keenan Wynn
Hesh-ke . . . . . Julie Newmar
Hachita . . . . . Ted Cassidy
Editor . . . . . Lee J. Cobb
Preacher . . . . . Raymond Massey
Storekeeper . . . . . Burgess Meredith
Englishman . . . . . Anthony Quayle
Adams . . . . . Edward G. Robinson
Ben Baker . . . . . Eli Wallach...
June 19, 1969
The Screen: 'Mackenna's Gold' in Apache Country
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: June 19, 1969
"MACKENNA'S GOLD," a Western of truly stunning absurdity, is the work of J. Lee Thompson, a thriving example of that old Hollywood maxim about how to succeed by failing big. Thompson is the British director who once made a decent film, "Tiger Bay," then a popular one, "The Guns of Navarone," and after that a succession of unclassifiable things like "Taras Bulba," "What a Way to Go" and "Kings of the Sun," each of which was of an awfulness so compelling that producers couldn't seem to hire him fast enough.
As was "Navarone," this new movie was produced and written by Carl Foreman, who may be its real auteur, though it's hard to tell. "Mackenna's Gold" is so lacking in discipline and consistent visual style that there were times yesterday afternoon at Loew's State II, where the movie opened (as well as at Loew's Orpheum), that I suspected the dominant creative personality might have been Derek Frye's.
Frye is credited as the movie's sound supervisor, and the one thing the movie has in abundance is sound. It is sound so stereophonic — so all-surrounding — that, at the State, anyway, it dwarfs the screen and, at one point, gave me the distinct impression that a bunch of steers were stampeding near the ladies' room.
Foreman's screenplay is a horizontal narrative about a search for a legendary valley of gold held sacred by the Apaches. Although it is set in the Old West, it actually has the shape of French farce: various groups of characters pursuing each other in and out of ambushes in the kind of circular action so dear to Feydeau.
Most conspicuous in the film are Gregory Peck, a stoic sheriff, and Omar Sharif, a bandit who, in a nude scene appears to be turning to flab. They are supported by such people as Lee J. Cobb, Eduardo Ciannelli, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Eli Wallach, each of whom does a sort of stagger-on and then dies.
The structure of the movie is so loose that a narrator (Victor Jory) must be employed from time to time to explain the plot, as if it were a serial. Most surprising in a movie that obviously cost a good deal of money is the sloppy matching of exterior and studio photography with miniature work for special effects. I haven't been as unimpressed by a climactic movie earthquake since the gods became angry when Dorothy Lamour refused to be dumped into Paramount's backlot volcano in—if I remember correctly — "Aloma of the South Seas."
MACKENNA'S GOLD, screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on a novel by Will Henry; directed by J. Lee Thompson; produced by Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin; presented by Columbia Pictures. At Loew's State II Theater, Broadway and 45th Street, and Loew's Orpheum Theater, 86th Street at Third Avenue. Running time: 128 minutes.
Mackenna . . . . . Gregory Peck
Colorado . . . . . Omar Sharif
Sergeant Tibbs . . . . . Telly Savalas
Inga . . . . . Camilla Sparv
Sanchez . . . . . Keenan Wynn
Hesh-ke . . . . . Julie Newmar
Hachita . . . . . Ted Cassidy
Editor . . . . . Lee J. Cobb
Preacher . . . . . Raymond Massey
Storekeeper . . . . . Burgess Meredith
Englishman . . . . . Anthony Quayle
Adams . . . . . Edward G. Robinson
Ben Baker . . . . . Eli Wallach...
