Garden of evil author6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Garden of Evil’s two best features are that it’s beautifully shot on location in Mexico in Cinemascope and the veteran star actors who keep it reined in on a steady course despite all its ridiculous mutterings about love and gold. The adventure story, set in the late 19th century, is by Fred Freiberger & William Tunberg, and the screenplay is by Frank Fenton. Instead it meanders over an ill-advised romantic path leading nowhere in all its brooding sentiments. Veteran filmmaker Henry Hathaway (“Rawhide”/”Kiss of Death”/”True Grit”) efficiently but without inspiration directs this muddled, plodding Western that fails in its attempt to be profound. “Muddled, plodding Western that fails in its attempt to be profound.” Clark music: Bernard Herrmann cast: Gary Cooper (Hooker), Susan Hayward (Leah Fuller), Richard Widmark (Fiske), Cameron Mitchell (Luke Daly), Hugh Marlowe (John Fuller), Víctor Manuel Mendoza (Vicente Madariaga), Rita Moreno (Cantina Singer) Runtime: 100 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Charles Brackett Twentieth Century-Fox 1954) GARDEN OF EVIL (director: Henry Hathaway screenwriters: Frank Fenton/story by Fred Freiberger & William Tunberg/ cinematographer: Milton R. ![]()
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