These Thousand Hills (20th Century Fox) (1959)

Don Murray and Patricia Owens forge a homelife in the rugged frontier West in Twentieth Century-Fox’s screen version of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, Pulitzer Prize saga, “These Thousand Hills.” The CinemaScope, De Luxe Color film opens .... at the.... Theatre. Mat 2B Legal Eagles “Ambushed By Utes He was only a red skinned heathen But his mind it was sharp and keen. And even before I’d checked the dice, He’d stripped my wallet clean... ! (Old Ballad, Circa 1880) Twentieth Century-Fox executives, scouting the lands of the Mountain Utes in Colorado for location sites to be used in the making of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, “These Thousand Hills,” which opens.... at the .... Theatre, found themselves victims of what might be termed “the red man’s revenge.” Fox lawyers, following in the steps of Director Richard Fleischer’s location teams, presented themselves to the Ute Supreme Council of Chiefs at their ultra-modern Hogan in the Four Corners Area of the eastern Colorado highlands. The legal brains were armed with the fore-knowledge that the Utes are amongst the shrewdest of all the Indian nations, having demanded and received from the U. S. Government vast amounts in reparation for their lands which were taken from them in the 1870’s. In fact, the current Ute treasury statement shows that the tribe of 757 Mountain Utes has a bank balance of $66,000,000, or approximately $900,000 per Ute. The lawyers were invited to wait in the modern anteroom of the Hogan after presenting their request that Twentieth Century-Fox be allowed to film the epic Western on their rolling highland reservation, with a star cast including Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. Chief Albert Wing, who professes to speak no English (although he is known to cattlemen and oil operators as a shrewd bargainer) delegated sub-chief Jack House to deal with the Fox representatives, after first making it clear that no film company had ever been allowed to use the reservation. The Fox executives pleaded everything from artistic mission to a number of paying business propositions. Jack House listened quietly and then entered the Council Room of the Ute Chiefs. The Fox men could see Chief Wing through the glass window between the anteroom and the chamber. Once he seemed to be laughing under his huge ten-gallon hat; another time, much later in the day, he seemed to be napping. The exasperated Fox men rallied their forces and sent in another proposal with Panmunjam-like persistence and patience. Then, at the exhausted moment when all hope seemed lost, Chief Wing sent word that they could film the CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production free of charge on the reservation so long as the eye carried no message detremental to the interests of the Indian nation. Patricia Owens — Happy Superstitionist In stark contrast to Lee Remick—her co-star in Twen tieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production of “These Thousand Hills,” '® ae ‘Born In A Trunk’ Don Murray was, practically born in a trunk, as the old stage cliché goes. He is the son of a well-known showman, Dennis Murray, who was once stage manager for the great Flo Ziegfeld and was brought up in and out of theatres and on the road for most of his early years. But, unlike many show people, Don shuns the eccentric or the flashy; he is conservative and almost shy; he is also a devoutly religious man whose religion is very much integrated with his whole way of life. In “These Thousand Hills,” Don’s latest film for Twentieth Century-Fox, he plays aman who struggles first with the Western frontier of the 1880’s and then with himself, in an effort to reach a satisfactory place in life. He stars in the Richard Fleischer directed CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production with Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. It opens ....atthe.... Theatre. Don is married to another “show baby,’ Hope Lange — whose own father was an arranger for Ziegfeld. They have one child, Christopher, and another on the way. It's Double “K”’ Albert Dekker, who has literally played the role of a tycoon or landed aristocrat from here to Hong Kong and back again, comes by the ability quite naturally. His real name is Albert Van Dekker and his family comes from Dekkerstown-on-the-Hudson where they have held forth since the earliest days of the colonies. In fact, one of Dekker’s ancestors, Johann Van Dekker, was Governor of Staten Island. Dekker is currently portraying a landed aristocrat in Twentieth Century-Fox’s screen version of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, “These Thousand Hills,” which opens.... at the .... Theatre. In talking to newsmen on the set during the filming of the CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production, Dekker admitted that there is one thing that makes him furious and that is to have his name misspelled. Otherwise, said the film veteran, he doesn’t take being a Van Dekker too seriously, just so long as people don’t try to make him into a “Decker.” He appears in a feature role in the David Weisbart production directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. ‘Thousand Hills’ Due “These Thousand Hills,” Twentieth Century-Fox CinemaScope, De Luxe Color picturization of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, will open.... at the .... Theatre, starring Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. who is without superstition of any kind, Patricia Owens is a mass of such irrational concepts. For instance: she never whistles in her dressing room—bad luck; never walks under ladders —same; never files her nails on weekends—an obscure but serious way to bring about bad luck, she says; never picks up a dropped knife—once one lay on her floor for two weeks until a | visitor picked it up, and—most of all—she never lets anyone read a marked script after she has read it herself. In spite of all this, the beautiful star of the film version of the A. B. Guthrie, Jr., novel which is currently at the .... Theatre, is generally free and cheerful about life, and her superstitions, somehow, seem to add to this attitude, rather than detract. Born in England, Patricia came to Hollywood to become one of its brightest young stars. She was importantly cast in “Island in the Sun,” she was one of eight young stars in the recent drama, “No Down Payment,” and had a major supporting role in the successful, “Sayonara.” Fresh from a starring role in “The Fly,” the shock sensation of 1958, Patricia Owens co-stars with Don Murray, Richard Egan, Miss Remick and Stuart Whitman in “These Thousand Hills.” ing....atthe.,.. Theatre. Richard Egan, as a rancher-gambler, and Lee Remick, as a dance hall girl, appear in a scene from Twentieth Century-Fox’s Cinema Scope, De Luxe Color production of “These Thousand Hills,” A a at 2 Guthrie's Best-Selling Western Saga Of “These Thousand Hills Reaches CinemaScope, De Luxe Color Screen (Advance) Pulitzer Prize winner A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, mighty saga of the far western frontier, “These Thousand Hills,” will receive its local premiere ....at the.... Theatre. The Twentieth Century-Fox CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production is one of the most authentic Western stories ever filmed and stars Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whit‘©— man. One of a great Western trilogy by the author, ‘These Thousand Hills,” written for the screen by Alfred Hayes, chronicles the adventures of a young cowboy who drifts into an Oregon town with a huge cattle herd. He stays on $300 or Nothing Stuart Whitman is an actor who doesn’t really like to act. That is, unless the acting jobs are exactly right for him. Now, this feeling is shared by almost everyone who acts, but most actors have to take any job that comes along until they become stars just as a matter of day to day living. Stuart, however, who claims to have found “just the right acting job” in Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production of “These Thousand Hills,” simply rolls out his private bulldozer and goes to work for $100 a day. At these rates he can afford to await the plush jobs, which—incidentally—have been offered in ever-increasing numbers since his smash in a relatively small role in Twentieth’s “Ten North Frederick.” His ownership and skill with a bulldozer has led to his boast that he’s never taken an acting job, either in movies or TV, that paid him less than $300 per week. A rough and tough product of the 30’s during which his father lied law and real estate and tuart attended no less than 26 schools, he is a former prize fighter who built the house he and his wife and three children live in with his own hands. In “These Thousand Hills,” adapted from A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, best-seller about the frontier days in America, Stuart stars in a cast headed by Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick and Patricia Owens. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and is currently at the.... Theatre. Egan A Paradox Richard Egan is a study in paradoxes. He looks like a heavyweight boxer, or possibly a professional wrestler of the GrecoRoman school; he is actually a devoutly religious man who also holds a Master of Arts degree in drama. In most of his film roles he plays villains, or at least second lead roles requiring a heavy hand. For instance, in Twentieth Century-Fox’s “These Thousand Hills,” in which he stars with Don Murray, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman, he plays a bad man who ends up shot by the woman over whom he is battling Don Murray. The film is currently at the.... Theatre. A veteran of some 30 films, Dick’s most recent part prior to his role in the screen version of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, Pulitzer Prize novel, was the tough fighter commander, “Dutch Imil” in “The Hunters.” And One Milking Cow Among the production requirements for “These Thousand Hills,” Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, De Luxe Color drama opening ....atthe.... Theatre, was “one milking cow.” When propmen brought the cow on the set, they found themselves without anyone to milk her. Director Richard Fleischer tore his hair at the resultant delay. Stuart Whitman, a co-star with Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick and Patricia Owens in the film, finally saved the day by milking her. to become a respected citizen and finally gambles his position in the defense of a loose woman who befriended him in his early days. Produced by David Weisbart and directed by Richard Fleischer, the picture casts Murray in the lead role as the young A“ Quiet” Talent Lee Remick is the bane of the biography writer. She does not cook, sew, play a musical instrument, have any superstitions, play in any sport forms or have any hobbies. She is from a well-off, conservative family and had a happy and untraumatic childhood. She attended some of the best, and quietest, schools in New England. And, she is happily married to her first and only husband. Lee, starring in the Twentieth Century-Fox CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production of “These Thousand Hills,” along with Don Murray, Richard Egan, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman, does only one thing that is worthy of the standard film biography treatment; she acts superbly. This is again evidenced currently at the.... Theatre where “These Thousand Hills” is now playing. She made an instant hit in her first motion picture, “A Face in the Crowd,” and in her second picture, Jerry Wald’s “The Long, Hot Summer,” she walked away with praise in the face of stiff competition from such stalwarts as Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman and Orson Welles. Married to William Colleran, New York TV director, Lee keeps a smart New York apartment where, as she put it, “I do my nothing at all.” Martin Ritt, who directed her in “The Long, Hot Summer,” said recently that “Lee’s nothing at all, is the most vital and alive nothing ever seen.” Editor To Producer David Weisbart, producer of Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, “These Thousand Hills,” is a man who learned the motion picture business from the bottom up. Starting out in the film editing department, Weisbart went on to become an ace film editor, working on such great films as “Mildred Pierce,” “Johnny Belinda” and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which was recently re-released by Twentieth. As a producer he has to his credit among others the James Dean sensation, “Rebel Without a Cause.” “These Thousand Hills,” his biggest undertaking to date, stars Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. Richard Fleischer directed the picture which is the current attraction at the.... Theatre. Biblical Quotation The title of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, best-selling novel of the Old West, “These Thousand Hills,” now a Twentieth Century-Fox production opening at the . Theatre, is taken directly from the Bible; the Book of David, Psalm 50, Verse 10. The full quotation reads: “All the beasts of the forest are mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” “These Thousand Hills,” stars Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens and Stuart Whitman. cowman, The part is a marked change in pace for Murray from the accountant he played in “The Bachelor Party,” or the dope addict of “A Hatful of Rain.” Punctuated with action and sudden violence, the drama features Egan as the dapper gambler-rancher who becomes Murray’s chief enemy and with whom Murray fights a prolonged handto-hand battle which may well be remembered as a screen classic. Egan was last seen in “The Hunters.” As the angel of the dance hall, Lee Remick plays a radically different sort of role. Previously, she was the passionate young bride of “The Long, Hot Summer” and the baton-twirling teenager of “A Face in the Crowd.“ As the girl Murray does marry, Patricia Owens, too, departs sharply from her last role in “The Fly.” Murray’s trail pal who turns robber and is eventually hanged by Egan, is portrayed by newcomer Stuart Whitman who displays in “These Thousand Hills” one of the most exciting personalities to be recently introduced in a starring role. Last seen in “Ten North Frederick,” Whitman is one of the studio school’s stars; a product of a company policy which builds personalities attuned to today’s youthful audiences. Filmed entirely in and around the Four Corners area of eastern Colorado, ‘“‘These Thousand Hills” has as its backdrop the never before photographed Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, the old mining town of Silvertown, Durango and the broad plains of the nearby grazing lands. Moving to a surprising and shattering climax, the picture is sure to be considered excellent movie fare not only for the fans of A. B. Guthrie, but for all who like an excitingly told, pictorially beautiful Western production, Don Murray stars as a young cowhand who rises to prominence in the Old West in Twentieth Century-Fox’s screen version of A. B. Guthrie’s “These Thousand Hills,” opening ....atthe.... Theatre. Mat 1B Fight Unparalleled The fight sequence between Don Murray and Richard Egan, which climaxes Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, De Luxe Color production of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s, “These Thousand Hills,” current attraction at the .... Theatre, cost $60,000 to film, took two days to stage and is considered by industry veterans to rank with any fight scene ever put on film, including those of the great silent era. In addition to the two major antagonists, the outdoor action story stars Lee Remick, Patricia * Owens and Stuart Whitman. Page Three