Mackennas Gold (Columbia Pictures) (1969)

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{Mat 2A; Still No. 107) Omar Sharif, as a gold-hungry bandit chief, and Gregory Peck, as an Arizona Territory marshal named Mackenna, wage a desperate hand-to-hand tomahawk duel atop a legendary mountain of gold in Carl Foreman's giant of a movie, 'Mackenna's Gold.'' Camilla Sparv is one of the co-stars in the Columbia release, in Super Panavision and Technicolor; others are Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy and Keenan Wynn. EDWARD G. ROBINSON OOO OO OOOO OOOO OO O89 9 OOOO OOH OO OOS In Carl Foreman’s ‘“Mackenna’s Gold,” the Columbia Pictures release starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif at the Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor, Edward G. Robinson plays an old, Apache-blinded prospector in the 1870’s Southwest. It is his memories of a moment of indescribable joy when, in his youth, he found the lost canyon of gold, which sparks the action and drama of what has been called “a giant of a movie.” “Mackenna’s Gold” is Robinson’s 96th major film, in a career which achieved special significance when he played “Little Caesar.” He co-stars, in “Mackenna’s Gold,” with Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy, Keenan Wynn and the gentlemen from Hadleyburg, in alphabetical order: Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle and Eli Wallach. RAYMOND MASSEY DO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOH HOO OOO] In Raymond Massey’s long and illustrious entertainment career, his association with two enterprises stand out in the public mind. One was his performance in “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” both in the film and stage productions. The other, Massey’s prominent identification with the famed “Dr. Kildare” televisions series as Dr. Gillespie. Now, Massey is back in films playing a fanatical preacher who endows with religious fervor his lust for gold in Carl Foreman’s “Mackenna’s Gold,” at“tle eeu: .. Theatre. Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif star in the Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin produced the film. Co-starred in ‘“Mackenna’s Gold” are Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy, Keenan Wynn and, besides Massey, the other gentlemen from Hadleyburg: Lee J. Cobb, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Eli Wallach. Foreman’s screenplay was based on the novel by Will Henry. Quincy Jones wrote the music. BURGESS MEREDITH D © © ©©OHOOO OOH OOOO OO OOOO5OOOO® Since making his professional debut with Eva La Gallienne’s Student Repertory Group in 1930, Burgess Meredith has demonstrated a spectacular ability as a star, as a character actor, as a director, in the theatre, on the screen and in television. Curretitly,. atthe... ... Theatre in Carl Foreman’s ‘“Mackenna’s Gold,” in Super Panavision and Technicolor, he plays a timorous storekeeper who ventures into wild Apache country when seized by a lust for gold. Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif star in the new Columbia Pic tures release, produced by Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin and directed by J. Lee Thompson. Co-starred are Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy and Keenan Wynn, along with the gentlemen from Hadleyburg, other townsmen who join Meredith in the quest for gold. They are, in alphabetical order, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Eli Wallach. Carl Foreman wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Will Henry. (Mat 2B; Still No. 148) Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif, as United States marshal and bandit chieftain respectively, star in Carl Foreman's giant of a movie, ''Mackenna's Gold,"' the Columbia release in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Telly Savalas, as a renegade cavalryman, tops the co-star cast which includes Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy and Keenan Wynn, TELLY SAVALAS © © © OOO OOO OOOO 5958868 Telly Savalas still regards his acting career with considerable surprise despite his work in a dozen major films and an Academy Award nomination for “Birdman of Alcatraz,” his first film. Savalas currently co-stars with Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif in Carl Foreman’s “Mackenna’s Gold,” the giant of a movie in Super Panavision and Technicolor at the..... Theatre, in which he plays a veteran cavalryman turned renegade in the wilds of the Southwest when he is hit by gold fever. Savalas’ misgivings about his actor’s status were bared during Arizona location filming of the big outdoor adventure films, a Columbia Pictures release. Telly is still vastly amused by what he calls his “freak” entrance into the acting ranks, since his schooling and prior employment were nowhere concerned with acting, Savalas style. The star received a B.S. degree from Columbia University and then joined the U. S. State Department. He was executive producer of English language broadcasts to the Near East, South Asia and Africa for three years, later becoming a senior director of news and _ special events for ABC. While teaching an adult education course, he was asked to play a bit part on TV. After two more TV appearances, in more important roles, Savalas was selected to play the villainous convict in “Birdman of Alcatraz.” ELT WALLACH OOOO OO OOOO OOOOOO® Eli Wallach shuttles between stage and screen with consummate ease. He also is equally at home in different parts of the world, and in different characterizations. Currently, at the Theatre in Carl Foreman’s “Mackenna’s Gold,” Wallach plays an 1870’s Southwest gambler who leads the townsmen of Hadleyburg in a desperate search for a lost, legendary mountain of gold. His last screen appearances were as a modern business tycoon with marital problems and a mistress, in “How to Save a Marriage—and Ruin Your Life,” and as a New York mailman whose romantic life is completely nil, until he “reforms,” in “The Tiger Makes Out.” Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif star in ‘‘Mackenna’s Gold,”’ which co-stars Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy, Keenan Wynn and the gentlemen from Hadleyburg whom Wallach leads; they are, in alphabetical order, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Wallach. we Sic eee Je (Mat IG; Still No. 81) Julie Newmar is an Apache Indian girl whose hate for Gregory Peck, in Carl Foreman's "Mackenna's Gold,"' is almost as great as her love for him. The Columbia Pictures release, in Super Panavision and Technicolor, stars Peck and Omar Sharif, and also co-stars Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Ted Cassidy and Keenan Wynn. JULIE NEWMAR ©OHOOOH OOO OOOO OOOO 5 OOE Girl-watching is OK if the girl can’t see the girl-watchers watching. So implies Hollywood and Broadway star Julie Newmar who does a near-nude swimming scene in Carl Foreman’s “Mackenna’s Gold,” now at the ....Theatre. If she had enjoyed 20-20 vision, along with her 37-20-37 figure, the near-sighted Miss Newmar would never have dune the scene, she told Gregory Peck. and Omar Sharif, with whom she stars in the Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor. In “Mackenna’s Gold,” the statuesque Miss Newmar portrays an Indian girl, dressed throughout in formfitting buckskins, whose interest in Peck is rivalled only by her obsession with the gold they are seeking, and her hatred of Camilla Sparv. The swimming scene called for Peck and Sharif, and the Misses Newmar and Sparv, to bathe in a mountain pool after a gruelling desert trek. When D-Day, the day of the formidable bathing scene arrived, Miss Newmar saw everything clearly—everything, that is, except the small army of technicians involved in filming what has been called “a giant of a movie.” “T was stationed on the far side of the pool from the cameras,” she says. “Suddenly it dawned on me that, thanks to my myopia, I could see no one on the other side. It was just as though I were completely alone. And any reservations about the scene just disappeared.” (Mat IF; Still No. 80) Camilla Sparv plays an Arizona Territory girl in Carl Foreman's ‘'Mackenna's Gold," Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor, with Gregory Peck, above, starred as Mackenna and Omar Sharif, as a goldhungry bandit chief. Co-starred with Camilla are Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy and Keenan Wynn. CAMILLA SPARV D@@@O9OO9999990909999099 It was a matter of considerable professional pride to Camilla Sparv, Sweden’s beautiful and glamorous actress, that she was accepted as “one of the boys” by the entire production company during location filming for Carl Foreman’s ‘“Mackenna’s Gold,” at the ...Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Tall, slim and lissome Miss Sparv is a former fashion model who does not appear the type to rough it in some of the West’s most rugged country, especially with temperatures in the blistering 120’s, and the winds blowing up clouds of red sand. The Columbia Pictures release, which stars Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif. was filmed in some of the roughest locations in remote parts of Oregon, Arizona, Utah and the California desert. Surrounded by a predominately male crew, Miss Sparv happily endured cramped living quarters, eating sand between (and with) meals, riding horseback, fighting off sunstroke, swimming in a near-ice mountain pool, and making do without the niceties of what passes for civilization. “Mackenna’s Gold” also costars Telly Savalas, Julie Newmar, Keenan Wynn, Ted Cassidy and in alphabetical order, the gentlemen from Hadleyburg: Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G. Robinson and Eli Wallach. Carl Foreman produced ‘‘Mackenna’s Gold” with Dimitri Tiomkin. Quincy Jones wrote the music. ‘MACKENNA’S GOLD’ COLUMN ITEMS D © © ©OOOHOOHH OHHH OHOHOHOHOHOH HHO OHH OOH OOOO OO OOOOH OOHOOHOHOS Producer-writer Carl Foreman, whose ''Mackenna's Gold" stars Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif in Super Panavision and Technicolor, has never produced a picture in which there wasn't a character called ‘'Baker." Eli Wallach, one of the co-stars in the Columbia Pictures release, is the latest to bear the "Baker'’ name. "The real Baker,’ explains Foreman, "is a very good friend, Herbert Baker, the screenwriter. He's just lucky for me. When I'm with him | win at the races; even in Vegas. | won't jinx any of my films by ignoring Herbie." * * * Julie Newmar wasn't easily persuaded to do her nude scene in Carl Foreman's ‘'Mackenna's Gold,"’ Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif. "The script supervisor, John Dutton, said to me, ‘There's nothing to it',” Julie related. "So | said to him, would you do it? Would all the men do it? It was all right for the men to tell me to do it, but when it was suggested to them, they all got very red-faced." oe * ok Actor Omar Sharif survived unscathed the hazards of the Russian Revolution as filmed in "Dr. Zhivago." But, while filming Carl Foreman's "Mackenna's Gold" with Gregory Peck on location at Kanab, Utah, his horse reared its head back while Sharif was leaning low in the saddle, and broke the star's nose. ''Mackenna’'s Gold" is a Columbia Pictures release in Super Panavision and Technicolor. * * * Location shooting roamed over the four Western states of Oregon, Arizona, Utah and California, for Carl Foreman's ‘'Mackenna's Gold,'' at the bed, ee Theatre. The Columbia Pictures release, a giant of a movie starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif, was filmed in Super Panavision and Technicolor. * * * Jose Feliciano, who stirred controversy with his highly individual rendering of the National Anthem at the 1968 World Series, sings Quincy Jones’ "Ole Turkey Buzzard" in Carl Foreman's ‘'Mackenna's Gold.'' A Columbia Pictures release starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif, 'Mackenna's Gold’ is a giant of a movie filmed in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Feliciano emerged as an international singing star with his recording of "Light My Fire." Dimitri Tiomkin, who four Academy Awards and 25 nominations for his music, currently is out for a new kind of ''Oscar.'' Tiomkin is coproducer of Carl Foreman's "Mackenna's Gold," which stars Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif in Super Panavision and Technicolor; music for the Columbia Pictures release was written by Quincy Jones. The Foreman-Tiomkin association includes such other hit films as ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ "The Men, “Champion, "High Noon" and ''The Guns of Navarone."' * * * John Garfield, Jr., son of the late John Garfield, makes his major motion picture debut in the company of two of Hollywood's greatest stars, Gregory Peck and Edward G. Robinson, in Carl Foreman's giant of a movie, "“Mackenna's Gold." Peck, who stars in the Columbia Pictures release with Omar Sharif, appeared with the young actor's father in “Gentleman's Agreement," and Robinson starred with John Garfield in "The Sea Wolf." After acting in New York, following his studies in London, John, Jr., appeared on television in Hollywood before playing an almost minuscule role with Burt Lancaster in "The Swimmer." won Page 19