COPPER CANYON (DVD) (FF/DOL DIG(ENG & FRENCH MONO/ENG SUB/ DVD

Copper Canyon
Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide

Cast Ray Milland as Johnny Carter Hedy Lamarr as Lisa Roselle MacDonald Carey as Lane Travis Mona Freeman as Caroline Desmond Frank Faylen as Mullins Hope Emerson as Ma Tarbet Taylor Holmes as Theodosius Roberts Peggy Knudsen as Cora James Burke as Jeb Bassett Percy Helton as Scamper Philip Van Zandt as Sheriff Wattling Francis Pierlot as Moss Balfour Erno Verebes as Professor Paul Lees as Bat Laverne Georgia Backus as Martha Bassett

Crew Franz Bachelin - Art Director Hans Dreier - Art Director Josephine Earl - Choreography Gile Steele - Costume Designer Edith Head - Costume Designer Herbert Coleman - First Assistant Director John Farrow - Director Edna Warren - Editor Daniele Amfitheatrof - Composer (Music Score) Jay Livingston - Songwriter Carl Silvera - Makeup Hal Lierley - Makeup Wally Westmore - Makeup Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer Mel Epstein - Producer Sam Comer - Set Designer Ross Dowd - Set Designer Richard English - Screen Story Jonathan Latimer - Screenwriter

Copper Canyon
Hedy Lamarr appears in Copper Canyon beautifully decked out in Technicolor period costumes but what she is doing here is anyone's guess. Yes, there is quite a bit of talk about her being hired by a crooked smelting baron to drive away the competition but exactly how she's is supposed to do so is never really made clear. But the lady is indeed stunning and if her falling head over heels in love with Ray Milland at virtually first glance sounds equally equivocal, well, that's just par for the course. Mr. Milland, meanwhile, is just as enigmatic as his co-star: Is he or isn't he a former Confederate colonel on the run? After 80 or so minutes of mostly exposition, however, nobody will much care. Watch for Nina Mae McKinney, the seductress of King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929), in a silent bit as Lamarr's maid. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: cc Full screen format English subtitles Dolby Digital: English Mono, French Mono DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 83 min Part of Series: Paramount Full-Screen Collection   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. A Message for Colonel Diamond 2. Fool's Gold 3. The Might of Moss Balfour 4. Curiosity About Lisa Roselle 5. Trouble at the Rainbow 6. Plans for the Ore Train 7. Business, Not Pleasure 8. Ambushed 9. Broken Promises 10. Travis' Specialty 11. Johnny Takes Command 12. Cast of Characters