The Sons of Katie Elder (Paramount Pictures) (1965)

Record Details:

Title:
The Sons of Katie Elder (Paramount Pictures)
Date:
1965
Publisher:
Paramount Pictures
Volume:
The Sons of Katie Elder (Paramount Pictures Pressbook, 1965)
Leaf #:
00021
Language:
English
Collection:
Pressbooks
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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THEY CAME BACK FROM NOBODY KNEW WHERE TO DO ONLY GOD KNEW WHAT----- Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she was.buried they all returned to the Texas town of Clearwater to pay their last respects. John (JOHN WAYNE) was the oldest, the toughest, the gunslinger. Texas; its bigness and its violence echoed in his empty soul. Tom (DEAN MARTIN) was a different breed of hombre. He was good with a deck of cards and good with a gun — when he had to be. Matt (EARL HOLLIMAN) was the quiet one. Nobody ever called him yellow... twice. Bud (MICHAEL ANDERSON, JR.) was the youngest. What ever hopes for respectability the Elder name had lay with him. Hal Wallis, one of Hollywood’s most consistent profit makers, last produced a major western in 1957 — the epic and unforgettable GUNFIGHT AT THE 0O.K. CORRAL. Now, eight years later, THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER promises the same excitement as its great predecessor. Again, Wallis has assembled a top-notch cast, headed by John Wayne, Dean Martin and Martha Hyer. Famed veteran Henry Hathaway (THE: HOUSE ON 92ND STREET, NIAGARA, THE DESERT FOX, HOW THE WEST WAS WON, CIRCUS WORLD) was chosen to direct. The original story tells of four rough men and the woman who tried to tame them in their fight against evil in the Texas of the 1890's. And there was Mary (Martha Hyer) the wo man who tried ‘to tame them.