American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1959)

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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Lang, ASC, bottom center, looks on as VistaVision camera photographs scene on location for the Hal-Wallis-Paramount production, "Last Train From Gun Hill.” Use of crane here provided maximum mobility for the camera. Photographing "Last Train From Gun Hill " Carefully selected camera angles give strong dramatic impact to this taut western melodrama filmed by Charles Lang, A.S.C. By HERB A. LIGHTMAN “Last Train From Gun Hill,” Hal Mallis’ production for Paramount re¬ lease, is a blockbuster of motion pic¬ ture entertainment that hits the audi¬ ence with all the force of a pile driver. As robust film fare it derives its tre¬ mendous impact from the direction of John Sturges, performances by an un¬ usually able cast, and the magnificent color VistaVision camerawork of Di¬ rector of Photography Charles Lang, Jr., A.S.C. “Last Train” is not a western in the usual horse-chase, shoot-’em-up sense. Rather it is a taut, hard-hitting melo¬ drama of human emotions set in a western locale — a clean, direct narra¬ tive that hews relentlessly to its story line until the inevitably violent denoue¬ ment has been realized. The film seizes attention in its open¬ ing sequence when two drunken no¬ good cowpokes (Earl Holliman and Brian Hutton) rape and murder a beautiful young Cherokee squaw. Her young son steals one of the murderer’s horses and races to bring word to his father (Kirk Douglas) who is the Mar¬ shal of the peaceful Oklahoma town of Pawley. 544 AMERICAN CINEAAATOGRAPHER