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Welcome to the 31st Lone Pine Film Festival, celebrating the return of the festival and a comeback of the Western Film.
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But maybe more meaningful than experiencing the wealth of dramatic natural beauty we’re lucky enough to immerse in each year, this year - our 31st Lone Pine Film Festivalreminds us just how important is...
We so missed seeing you all out in the scenic wonder of the Alabama Hills and are grateful to be able to return to meeting in person this year.
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We’reagain. back!
The hugely popular YouTube sensation “A Word on Westerns” will be taping episodes in the storefront windows of the Chamber of Commerce.
One last thing...
Autograph and book signings will be at The Reimagined Room located half way down Main Street next to Jake’s Saloon on the east side of the street — watch for the signs. Meet and greet the celebrities - get them to photo bomb you so everyone can stay covid safe.
And more surprises: Hollywood historian and archivist, Marc Wanamaker will be making a major announcement about a newly discovered film shot in Lone Pine.
Lizzie Gulick, Director
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my hardworking festival committee, Don Kelsen, Chris Langley, Ross Schnioffsky, Warren Davey, Ken Harrison, Jaque Hickman, Nancy O’Sullivan, and Greg Parker; our stellar museum staff, Peggy Ray, Jeremy Shutz, and Jessyka Hall for all of their help; Kathleen New for organizing our Parade; the intrepid Barbara Bahl who answers the ticket line and all of your questions; and the Museum Board of Directors, Kathy Bancroft, Kal Bhakta, Jaque Hickman, Don Kelsen, Brenda Lacey, and Nancy O’Sullivan for all of their behindthe-scenes support. I am honored to be the director.
Don’t forget Lone Pine’s “Art in the Park” at the north end of Main Street featuring some great arts and crafts by local artisans, with fantastic food, and a Mariachi Band on Saturday night from 5-7pm.
While last year’s Virtual Western Watch Party was a success, nothing comes close to those majestic sunrises in the Eastern Sierra, the rugged power of our immortal Alabama Hills or watching the moon rising to meet the stars above Mt. Whitney.
The simple pleasures of sitting together with friends.
Please be sure to get out into the hills for a bit while you are here in Lone Pine — experience the soul of the place that has brought filmmakers here for over 100 years. It is truly not to be missed.
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Also this year: horseback riding tours through the hills with the McGee Creek Pack Station! Horseback tours will be starting at 8:00am on Friday and will fill up fast, so please book early.
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We must also pay tribute to Charles Kilpatrick and Jack Minton, tireless community and festival supporters who also passed away. Good friends.
Sadly, we must bid adieu to one of our co-founders, the indomitable, Kerry Powell. Besides starting and contributing so much to the festival, Kerry was a constant source of inspiration and support to the entire community. She is sorely missed and fondly remembered.
We wish Shawn Lum, our former Executive Director of the Museum, best wishes for her new job at the Eastern California History Museum.
Jaque Hickman, Nancy
This year’s Festival will celebrate the films —old and new— that Hollywood as well as new up-andcoming directors have created for our enjoyment and shared experience.
The films that brought us together initially and will bring us together
Please don’t miss the closing campfire with renowned cowboy poet, Larry Maurice in the Park on Sunday night at 7:30 pm.
35 exciting tours of 15 different films, not to mention 21 films screening, including a short film program, and – ready? - the World Premiere of the remastered Under Western Stars, Roy Roger’s first starring role – very exciting!
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2 The Bison Film Co. 10 Photo Essay 15 John Doucette 16 Map 16 Down Under 17 Cesar Romero 18 Tour Guides 24 Celebrity Guests 27 Special Activities 30 Screenings Some articles reprinted with permission from Sierra Wave, Inyo County Register, and Ridgecrest Daily Independent. SAT. JUNE 4, 2022 Concert in the Rocks Save the Date Become a Member of the Museum of Western Film History ★ Unlimited free admission to museum and Movie Nights ★ 10% discount on all gift shop and online store purchases ★ Invitation to all museum events, concerts, exhibit openings, art show receptions and book signings ★ Opportunity to become a Museum Volunteer ★ Four BONUS one-time visitor tickets ★ Admission to museum Members’ Reception for the June concert ★ 20% discount on annual Film Festival tickets Join now: www.lpmuseum.org
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The motion picture industry came to Los Angeles in 1908 with the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago and it was followed by the Bison Film Company of New York in 1909. Selig
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he history of the Owens Valley is intertwined with the discovery of gold and silver in the Sierra Mountains both in California and Nevada, water supplies for the Los Angeles area, and tourism at the beginning of the 20th century. Railroads played a major role in the development of Lone Pine and the Owens Valley and by 1883, the Carson and Colorado Railway line was constructed from Belleville Nevada, across the White Mountains to Benton and then down to the Owens Valley where it ended in Keeler. The arrival of the C&C rail line and the stagecoach in Keeler where an economic boost for the area. From Keeler, one could take the stagecoach to Mojave and then either onto akersfield or Los ngeles. The Lone Pine area was an important junction for tourists coming to see Mount Whitney, Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Mammoth Mountain, Death Valley National Park and Yosemite National Park since the late 19th century.
THE BISON FILM COMPANY ON LOCATION IN THE LONE PINE VICINITY IN 1909 announcing a new discovery...
Advertisement in The Moving Picture World magazine of 1909.
described the story of a small child that was taken by a local Indian from a mining camp. The miners could not find the little girl, but she is welcomed to the Indian tribe. Fifteen years later, the stagecoach arrives at the town (Lone Pine) and a young man in the coach says he is the lost girl’s brother and has come to find her. n the end of the film, he finds her and fights the ndians for
north from Mojave to the town of Lone Pine which was completed in 1910.
When the Bison Film ompany began to film on location throughout Southern California they came to the Owens Valley for authentic Western backgrounds. By 1910 much of California was connected by rail and it was used by tourists, commerce and general transportation that helped California grow to what it is today. A Bison Film Company production filmed at Lone Pine was entitled, Iona, The White Squaw (1909) starring the Bison Stock Company of actors. In an advertisement in The Moving Picture World in October 23, 1909 with a photograph of the actors posing by a Keeler Stagecoach at the Lone Pine Railroad Station, ison Films, ne Reel a Week, Iona, The White Squaw. In the release of this subject, The New York Motion Picture Company presents a feature film in the extreme sense of the term. This Picture far surpasses any previous release, and is remarkable for its trueness in portraying Indian life.”
made a deal with Charles Lummis, norththeSequoia,DeathBernardinoBigthismorebackgrounds.andonTouristTheyAmericansincludedearlyproducedCaliforniaofMissionHistorian,CaliforniatouseoriginalpropertiesinlieufeestohelprestoretheMissions.TheystoriesaboutCalifornialifewhichstoriesofNativeandMexicans.workedwithCaliforniaauthoritiestogolocationsinCaliforniaNevadaforauthenticSomeofthepopularlocationsatearlytimeincluded,BearValleyintheSanMountains,Valley,Yosemite,KingsCanyonandMojaveDesertareasallofLosAngeles.In1900theSouthern Pacific Railroad took over the Carson and Colorado Railroad line and by 1 0 became the Nevada and alifornia Railway. t this same time Los Angeles began the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Owens Valley. These old mining and supply trains were replaced by railroad lines coming from Nevada, Arizona and south to Los Angeles. The Southern Pacific’s southern route had a standard gauge line (the Jawbone Branch) that ran
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her freedom and regains her and they leave the town.
NORTH AMERICA’S ONLY TRUE DESERT OASIS
The film was directed by Director/Manager, Fred Balshofer who brought the company from New York and established the studio in Los Angeles. The stock company of actors on location in Lone Pine included, John M. Brown, William Daniels and Evelyn Graham.
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actresses such as Peggy Stewart, Beth Marion and others, however for this article we will look to the Hollywood “A” list and focus on some well-known names who made the journey to travel from Los ngeles to make films in Lone Pine.
n e haustive survey of significant female Lone Pine filmmakers is not possible in this short article so we will aim to spotlight only a limited number of prominent women who made films in Lone Pine. In the past some attention has been directed towards wonderful
Presentation Friday Oct 7th 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Museum Theater by Ross Schnioffsky & Warren Davey
Rita Hayworth with the befuddled Glenn Ford in The Loves of Carmen (1948)
ur cohort will include household names such as Barbara Stanwyck, Maureen ’ ara, Rita ayworth, da Lupino and Susan Hayward. It is our intention to pay homage to these wonderful women filmmakers who played smart, unafraid and independent women and who have given so much to the fabulous history of filmmaking in Lone Pine.
in the Alabama Hills and that was the range war Western, The Violent Men 1 . n this film she was able to play with her nasty and duplicitous persona with telling effect. nd to boot she was able to work alongside some mighty good actors such as Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford and rian Keith. Stanwyck loved getting into the saddle and putting on the gun belt and she loved Lone Pine. efore she died she re uested that her ashes be scattered over the Alabama Hills. No one quite matched Barbara Stanwyck’s strutting feistiness.
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The long, long history of filmmaking in Lone Pine and surrounding areas has benefited from the contribution of many great women filmmakers. ver the years these great women have not received their due recognition. This is maybe because the great number of actionadventure based films that is, lots of Westerns that were filmed in the area have conventionally tended to have masculine attributes with the male hero dominating the plots. Westerns heavily stressed masculinity so many of the women’s roles were seen through the context of the male characters. Men wrote and directed most of the Westerns so women’s roles tended to re ect a male perspective. The women characters displayed traits traditionally thought feminine: passivity, dependence, gentleness and sensitivity, and other traits. f women were given strong characters, they must ultimately depend on a man for their happiness and security. The male perspective dominates many of the films made in Lone Pine and the female roles were played out in accordance with male e pectations of female behavior. Perhaps this has contributed to the lack of attention given to wonderful women of Lone Pine.
MAVERICK QUEENS: The Women of Lone Pine
The likely lads from “Down-under,” Ross Schnioffsky and Warren avey pay homage and take a look at those tough, independent women who ourished in the so-called “man’s world” of the Alabama Hills.
Let’s start with one of Hollywood’s greatest - Barbara Stanwyck. No other actress was quite like Babs – she was virtually without peer in the portrayal of tough, fearsome women of the west. She typically played a wise cracking, cynical and aggressive woman, demanding respect and elucidating fear from her male counterparts. Some of her great Westerns were The Maverick Queen 1 , Forty Guns 1 and The Furies 1 0 . nfortunately, she only made one film
Like a spider in a web Natalie Wood snares Tony Curtis in The Great Race (1965)
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the so-called woman-tamers and proves to be resourceful and resolute (and like Baxter in Yellow Sky… very handy with a gun!)Another member of the Lone Pine female cohort to win an Oscar® was Joan Fontaine. Joan was the romantic interest for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr in George Steven’s ripping epic, Gunga Din (1939). Joan Fontaine won her Oscar® a few years later for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941).
Anne Baxter, who always saw herself as a serious actor and not a Hollywood personality plays “Mike” - an indomitable, pistol-packing tomboy, she took no lip from the lusty outlaws in Yellow Sky. The year before Yellow Sky was released Baxter won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor’s Edge (1946) and a few years later she would receive another Oscar nomination for her performance in All About Eve (1950). Not only does Mike sock Gregory Peck to the ground in Yellow Sky but she also gets to assault Peck’s screen image by requesting that his character, Stretch eliminate his distasteful body odor by bathingAnotherpost-haste.Oscar® winning actress was Susan Hayward –she won hers for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958). In Rawhide, she (Vinnie Holt) and co-star Tyrone Power (Owens) are held hostage by a gang of four murdering prison escapees who are bent on robbing the soon-to-arrive scheduled stagecoach. The couple, with Vinnie’s infant niece (Callie) are virtually locked in a room in the stagecoach relay station. The oppressive claustrophobia of their incarceration within the restricted space contrasts with the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada mountains but Hayward’s Vinnie deals with
The Love Goddess of the 1940s - Rita Hayworth also made only one film in the Alabama Hills - The Loves of Carmen 1 8 . nd this film was also made with Glenn Ford who it seems had a romantic Lone Pine affair with his co-star, Rita. One would think that Rita would make a perfect Carmen however this film seems to lack a certain sizzle but the sequences shot out in the Alabama Hills are wonderful to watch. Rita’s Carmen seductively eats an orange and as she drapes herself in the sun across a granite boulder that almost seems to vaporise under her. Poor befuddled Glenn Ford, as Don José, understandably cannot resist her.
Rita Hayworth may have had some say in the selection of the Alabama Hills as a key location for this film. This was the first film chosen and co-produced by Hayworth’s production company, the Beckworth Corporation, which gave her approval over her material and production details such as filming locations as well as a percentage of the film’s profits.
20th Century Fox produced two fabulously entertaining Lone Pine Westerns which feature feisty, spunky female characters. The films were Yellow Sky (William Wellman, 1948) and Rawhide (Henry Hathaway, 1951). The directors, Wellman and Hathaway, both loved strong, tough and assertive female characters and that is what we get in these two films.
A major contributor to Lone Pine movie history is an actress who should have won an Academy Award® but who didn’t. This Hollywood legend was Ida Lupino. And arguably she could have won an Oscar® not only for acting but also for directing. (Ida did win a number of awards including the 1973 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.) s some film commentators have stated Ida Lupino was one of Hollywood’s best actresses of the 1940s. She supports this claim with her wonderful performance as Marie in High Sierra 1 1 which was filmed in and around Lone Pine in 1940. Although Humphrey Bogart’s “Mad Dog” Roy Earle falls from the mountain and dies at the end of the film it is Lupino’s final scene where, through her tears, we can feel that Earle has indeed “crashed
through” and found freedom, if only in death.
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About a dozen years later Ida returned to Lone Pine in 1953 to direct The Hitch-Hiker (1953). The tenacious Ida Lupino was then the only woman director working in Hollywood, and she cleverly maneuvered around daunting gender-based obstacles to direct. Two of her films The Hitch-Hiker and Outrage (1950) - have been selected for the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. The Hitch-Hiker was the first mainstream merican film noir to be directed by a woman. It is a nerve-wracking suspense movie which is now recognized as one of the best movies made in the Lone Pine area. The plot is based on a true story and it tells of two vacationing fishermen who were taken hostage and systematically terrorized by a sadistic psychopath. The film is brilliantly helmed by Lupino with the very able assistance of ace RKO Pictures cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca. The interior visuals of three men entombed in the late 1940s Plymouth contrasted with the harsh, foreboding, treeless desert of dust and boulders (Alabama Hills) created a very unsettling state of hopelessness.
seemed insignificant within the ma estic yet unforgiving landscape of the Sierra Nevada range and the labama ills. These women were the driving force of many films including Rawhide, Yellow Sky and The Violent Men. We salute the ladies of Lone Pine!
aureen ’ ara, ollywood’s ultimate rish lass was in two Lone Pine films. oth are curious considering aureen’s background as they are Arabian-nights adventure sagas set in long-ago Persia.
Far removed from the grim and brutal reality of The Hitch-Hiker was Natalie Wood’s stellar performance as plucky photo ournalist and suffragette, aggie Dubois in Blake Edwards’ slapstick comedy, The Great Race (1965). Only a small portion of The Great Race was filmed in the Lone Pine area but the sequence is pivotal in demonstrating aggie’s doggedness and resourcefulness – she ingeniously uses her carrier pigeons to help The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) who is stuck in the desert without petrol. It is actually a wonderful location and provides a very popular photo opportunity for participants of Lone Pine location tours.
Lone Pine Festival regulars, Ross Schnioffsky and Warren avey, will beam in via the internet from Australia a multimedia, illustrated talk on the ladies of Lone Pine. The presentation will be in the useum theatre and the guys promise all the usual colored lights, bangs and whistles but nothing to scare the children or horses.
On location in the Lone Pine area Irish lass Maureen O’Hara waits for her next scene in Bagdad (1949)
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Felicia Farr stars with Audy Murphy in Hell Bent for Leather (1960).
Stuntwoman Polly Burson performs a spectacular fall in Hell Bent for Leather (1960).
ne, the aptly titled Flame of Araby (1951) sees the ame haired beauty wrestling with Jeff handler out amongst the boulders in the labama ills. The other, Bagdad (1949) makes top use of the Olancha sand dunes filling in for the rabian desert. She thought the films were lousy and she is not wrong. She was probably comparing them to the movies she made with John Ford and John Wayne.
We have praised a few wonderful women but there are many more and it would be negligent not to also mention some the many women who were not
stars. The gutsy Polly urson, stuntwoman e traordinaire, for one. er amazing fall from-wagon stunt when she was doubling Felicia Farr (another great Lone Pine actress in udie urphy’s Hell Bent for Leather (1960) is jaw-dropping. Independent and proficient with gun, rope and horse was ail avis, T ’s Annie Oakley (1954. ail with ale vans The ueen of the owgirls gave girls of the 1 0s two clear positive role models. These girls didn’t want to be uiet and lady like but wanted to play rough and tough with the boys.There have been so many wonderful women who through their stellar star uality, charisma, talent and beauty have added so much to the rich and fascinating film legacy that makes Lone Pine uni ue. arbara Stanwyck, nne a ter, Rita ayworth, Susan ayward and the other ma or actresses who made significant films in the Lone Pine area portrayed strong, intelligent, assertive and capable women who knew how to take care of themselves and were not only the equal of their male counterparts but also women who never
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Presentation Friday Oct. 8th 1:00pm - 1:45 pm Museum Theater with Thomas Kelsey
Please attend this presentation before you take the tour.
Mike presents a video compilation of John Wayne films emphasizing the directors who helped shape the Hollywood myths of the West that never really was, yet still entertain us to this day. The presentation explores in detail the locations you will visit on the tour.
ncredibly, the many westerns film location books have all ignored the Bar 20 Ranch because until 2011 its storied movie history was unknown, even at our own festival.
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JOHN WAYNE: And the West that Never Really Was!
EXPLORE THE LIFE BEHIND THE AnselLEGEND:Adams
Film historian and author, Richard W. Bann presents a video compilation of western excerpts shot at this pastoral venue covering the period from 1926 through 1949.
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BAR 20-THE RANCH
It is strongly recommended that you attend this presentation before you take the tour.
Presentation Friday Oct. 8th 10:30am - 11:30am Museum Theater with Richard W. Bann
Presentation Friday Oct. 8th 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Museum Theater with Mike Royer
Explore the life of the greatest Landscape photographer of the 20th Century. See his life unfold in the Theatre on the big screen from former student Thomas Kelsey and then tour nearby sites where he made enduring images.
It is strongly recommended that you attend this presentation before you take the tour.
This presentation will bring into focus the very important position that the women filmmakers of Lone Pine played in the many films made in the Lone Pine area over the past one hundred years. The women filmmakers were not ust decorative but were in many ways powerful role models and added much value to the films they made. t wasn’t ust the men who put Lone Pine on the map. t has been stated that behind every successful man there is a stronger and more empathetic woman. We hope to see you brim full of bonhomie as we visit you all the way across the Pacific from the “little” frontier western town of elbourne, ustralia.
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In the lecture & slide show, photographer omas Kelsey will speak of Ansel Adam’s life, how Adam’s almost became a concert pianist instead of a photographer and later, how he was instrumental in helping to create Kings Canyon National Park.
Presentation Friday Oct. 8th 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Museum Theater with Marc Wanamaker
Presentation Friday Oct. 8th 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Museum Theater with Ross Schnioffsky Warren avey
Ansel Adams
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His black & white images of Yosemite and the National Parks are regarded by many as the finest yet taken, but did you know that many of the photographs he made in the Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra are considered just as prized as the ones he made in the National Parks? He took images from Manzanar to the Alabama Hills, Mono Lake and Bridgeport. Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco in 1902. He rst visited Yosemite as a 14-year old in 1916 and it changed his life forever.
The presentation will analyze how the B Western got started back to 1909 with the Bison Film Company and the development of the B Western Star and the horses, costuming, side kicks and music used to create a genre of film that became truly an merican cultural icon for over forty years.
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A PANEL: Growing Up in Hollywood
The irector’s son, William Wellman Jr. and Wyatt c rea, the star, Joel c rea’s grandson, discuss the film and the careers of the star and director. Wellman directed pictures with arbara Stanwyck and c rea worked with her si times. This will be a lively introduction to the film.
Presentation Saturday Oct. 9th 2:30 pm -5:00 pm Auditorium
Following the screening of Roy Rogers’ film there will be a panel discussion with Steve Latshaw moderating with heryl Rogers arnett and the crew from isual ata edia Services responsible for the remaster.
filmed presentation of the irector’s work is followed by a lively interview by Producer Writer irector and Witney aficionado, Steve Latshow with the director’s son, Jay ee Witney.
UNDER WESTERN STARS: Intro and Panel Discussion of the Remastering of this classic film
Presentation Saturday Oct 9th 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm High School Quad with Rob Word
Presentation Saturday Oct. 9th 9:00 am - 10:00 am Museum Theater Jay Dee Witney with Moderator Steve Latshaw
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ur panel discusses the ins and outs of rowing p in ollywood with moderator Rob Word of A Word on Westerns. The panel includes Patrick Wayne, laude Jarman Jr., obby arradine, arby inton, and heryl Rogers arnett.
THE GREAT MAN’S LADY: Presentation
Presentation Saturday Oct 9th 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Auditorium with William Wellman Jr. Wyatt c rea
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and Gregory Peck, allies b now in the film Yellow Sky, as they battle Peck’s gang in the Alabama Hills.
Charles Bronson and Richard Boone check to see if the Sheriff’s posse is ahead of them, as they arrive at their journey’s destination. They are at Bronson’s home where he will see his wife and newborn son for the first time.
Fighting like a tiger, Anne Baxter confronts renegade Gregory Peck determining “rules” as they get squinted in this scene from 1948’s Yellow Sky. This is considered one of the great westerns filmed in the Alabama
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Richard Boone, with guest star Charles Bronson, wander through the Alabama Hills in this 1957 episode of Have GunWill Travel, Titled “The Outlaw.” Bronson escapes jail, bonds with Paladin and they journey to see his new born on. A tour of filming locations, for this television episode is offered at this year’s Film Festival.
The present day bridge, on Lone Pine Narrow Gauge Road, that helps cross the meandering Owen’s river doesn’t look the same. The Hitch-Hiker cast would have a difficult time walking a trail beneath the present bridge structure.
A unique filming location appearing in multiple scenes of The Hitch-Hiker The Hitch-Hiker tour, at this year’s Lone Pine Film Festival will journey to filming locations this 1953 film.
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Beautiful profile of Alabama Hills rock formation, located in the north end of Cattle Pocket.
Stepping into position, O’Brien -in the distance- is about to become a human target. Sociopath William Talman, having some crazy fun, forces Lovejoy (left) to shoot a can from O’Brien’s hand.
Down time for actors Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy, prisoners of Talman, in this scene from The Hitch-Hiker, directed by actor Ida Lupino, one of the rare female directors in the 1950’s USA.
With the help of a rope, Richard Boone is able to climb out of a pit.
THE HITCH-HIKER: FILM NOIR IN THE MIDDLE OF DESERT DAYLIGHT
ll the films Lupino directed for The Filmakers grew out of her and ollier oung’s desire to make independent films about ordinary people traumatized in the postwar social environments, films that had social significance and yet were entertaining. er interest had been captured by the story of the serial kidnapper William illy ook, whose vicious, senseless murders dominated the news when Lupino had gone to Palm Springs to receive an award. She met with Forrest amron, one of the characters kidnapped. any changes lay ahead dictated by the censors so Lupino could make the film. She had confronted the Production ode already in the making of Not Wanted, and now the code dictated no films made about real killers.
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The Hitch-Hiker Director, Ida Lupino.
By Christopher Langley Eastern California Film Historian
ith more than 00 films made in and around Lone Pine, alifornia to choose from, you are bound to have a few favorites. For me, one of those is The HitchHiker 1 starring Frank Love oy, dmund ’ rien, and William Talman and directed by possibly the most prolific female director in the 1 0s da Lupino, whose career through the postwar period and beyond bordered on miraculous. know itch iker is considered a classic film noir, but that style as film noir have always associated with dark nights, shadowy figures, mysterious alley ways, criminals, and the city in a kind of e pressionistic, distortionary style for the viewing audience.
Hitch-Hiker, made in Lone Pine’s labamas, went on to become known as her best film as a director, and certainly one of Lone Pine’s more interesting non westerns r is it a noir western . ut the road to that success was challenging for da Lupino who had already achieved fame in another Lone Pine film ten yearsda,earlier.bornin London on February , 1 18, came from a show business family in ngland. She was a teenager when she broke in to show business. She came to the States to play lice, of’ lice in Wonderland before the cameras. The producers realized she was too mature for the role, and they recreated her as a platinum blonde like Jean arlow. da was never happy with the parts she was given, even though she e perienced a lot of popularity with film fans. When she was cast in igh Sierra, it was her big break. t that point umphrey ogart was a lesser known actor than she. t was while she was working in Lone Pine, and the mountains leading up to t. Whitney that she first became familiar with the local locations. t is one of the advantages of filming here that depending on the time of day, time of year, the camera angle, the lighting, and staging that the same location could be used in so many ways, without the audience any wiser.
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The Filmmaker films directed by Lupino had a focus in environment. They went out and filmed on the actual locations whenever possible. This gave the films a sense of reality and documentary. n The Hitch-Hiker there are no significant female characters present. The focus now is on three men: kidnapper, serial killer mmet yers and his two latest victims.
illy ook kidnapped two hunters and held them captive for eight days in a a, e ico. efore that, he had murdered five members of a family, including three children. e had killed a traveling salesman as well. ll this earned him three hundred years in lcatraz. da Lupino, the only female director of any significance working in the 0’s, decided she wanted to make a film based on ook’s life.
Lupino couldn’t approach the censors like a male director would have. nstead she had to butter them up. She had at first been more interested in script writing, rather than directing, but now she was totally engaged in this pro ect from all sides. Lupino was successful in her strategy and got reen from the P on her side by the end of the negotiations. ut she had to get permission from the real itch iker killer to use his story. Lupino tells her story of meeting this demented psychopath. wanted to see illy and tell him was making a film about
n our culture today, we have grown almost callous to the slaughter of families by a serial killer. So many movies have been made on the sub ect in the last ten years that such plots seem only appropriate for direct to video, low budget films. ut it was not that way in 1 1.
ollywood wouldn’t touch. She told directors on set that she wanted to learn technical aspects. ut da herself stressed that these styles of famous male directors did not in uence her styles as demonstrated in films she directed.
The film content is one of enveloping pessimism, cynicism, disillusionment, and paranoia. This might seem surprising because the nited States had basically won WW2, the economy was beginning to strengthen in peace time, and the way ahead should have seemed rosy. ut materialism, changing roles within the family, that feeling of alienation, fatalism, and particularly moral ambiguity, social boredom, and ennui permeated the plot.
ut in the 1 0’s the Production ode forbade the depiction of notorious living criminals. da Lupino was not one to be easily dissuaded, and once having gotten both the kidnapped hunters’ permission, and even illy ook’s rights to do the film, she continued to work on the pro ect. The
The critics note that this film is almost entirely set in the compact desert area of the labama ills, standing in primarily for e ico. y the way, Lupino treats the e ican actors not stereotypically as was common. They seem to be real people, and when they speak in Spanish, no subtitles are offered, emphasizing a sense of authenticity.
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illy ook was e ecuted on ecember 12, 1 2, before the film was finished and released. The movie premiered in Boston on arch 20, 1 after the real murderer had been e Williamecuted.Talman, even after the reduction of the number killed by the real hitch hike killer, and other changes in the story was able to fully capture ook in his portrayal of the character and mannerisms of the real killer in Emmett Myers.
The Hitch-Hiker was filmed almost entirely in the labama ills and in ig Pine. Locations were used creatively, and they appear different because the angles, lighting, and e posure she employed made them
appear uite different. any location scouts, directors and art directors have commented on the diversity of the locations.
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needed a release from illy ook to do our film about him. er company paid his attorney 000 for e clusive rights. found illy to be cold and aloof. was afraid of him. illy ook had ard Luck’ tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and a deformed right eyelid that would never close completely. could not wait to get the hell out of San uentin.
The story focuses on the three characters: The Hitch-Hiker serial killer, and his two victims. The film begins with a few victims, suggested by the director of photographer rather than rubbing the audience’s nose in blood and gore. This of course only makes these scenes that much more effective and stimulating to the viewer’s imagination and fear.The two fishermen are played by dmund ’ rien Roy ollins and Frank Love oy il owen . We learn much about them as the film unspools. fter all they are trapped in a car with a psychopath, gun in hand in the back seat. Myers does not hesitate to threaten them. It seems likely at some point
The script was challenged angrily at first by the censors. Lupino had already dealt with them over a previous film so she knew how to get around them. eoffrey Shurlock of the P wrote to her, that any such attempt to glorify this wholesale murderer could not receive Code approval.” Ida and ollier defended their script, using the e ample of their previous films and their reputation as proof. ook would be a symbol of evil—an enemy of society. We at no time apologize for ook’s conduct, nor do we attempt at any point to glorify his criminal activity. The obvious reasons for portraying living people on the screen is
The Hitch-Hiker: dmund ’ rien Roy ollins , Frank Love oy il owen and William Talman mmett yers
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Lupino was determined to make the picture as accurate as possible to the terrible facts of the story but also get it distributed. The P o cials recognized this artist’s determination and the picture upon release that the compromises forced on Lupino in no way diluted the story. The facts and the impact of The Hitch-Hiker killer’s persona, grievous acts, and the fears of a postwar nation remain.
that we specialize in the documentary film and have found when dealing in facts we can produce pictures of greater import and impact.”
him…I entered San Quentin under strict security. I was allowed to see Billy Cook brie y for safety issues. found San uentin to be cold, dark and a very scary place inside.”
With the wide-open spaces in the Alabama’s and the rocks pushing people together fostering violence and half the film taking place in the tight confines of the car, the physical contrast emphasizes
Theoretically yers hopes the e ican police will mistake who’s who but the director is indicating what we have already noticed that Roy Collins is becoming more and more like Emmett Myers.
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oth fishermen are at least trying to get away from homes and wives for a little down time. Roy has no kids and seems more desperate to get away from his responsibilities than il. This serves Lupino’s purposes about social pressures and family con icts after World War 2 in our country. In the end Myers is more interested in playing games with these two fellows than just shooting them. He begins to get to know them, feels superior to them, and curious about their lives, at least for a psychopath with a lot of sociopathic characteristics.
the psychological and social situation around them. These three are literally and figuratively trapped. Trapped is another of the attributes critics, psychologists, and sociologists have identified in the postwar culture and society of America.
There are many reasons that urge you seek out The Hitch-Hiker for viewing. t is well made, it is classic film noir, you probably haven’t seen it, it was made by the only important female director working in the 1950s. If nothing else it is a modern, suspense filled, and entertaining film based on a story “ripped from the headlines”.
he will take advantage the gun gives him; he mocks the two men that they are nothing without guns. While Lovejoy is the more serious, stable character, O’Brien is slowly unraveling during the ordeal. Ironically, he is becoming more and more like Myers. t is di cult to understand Love oy and O’Brien as friends as they are not only different emotionally, they also come from two different economic classes. They have not spoken of such but Myers mocks them about this difference. So much so is ’ rien becoming like Talman, near the end of the film they switch clothes under the bridge.
Warning: for a while the lm was in public domain and there are some poor- uality versions, so be sure to get the Kino Lorber blue-ray version, a fabulous transfer. ou won’t regret it.
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After the war Doucette resumed his acting trade and was cast in several low-budget films in the late 1 0’s The 1950’s started with better roles for him including parts in Winchester ’73 (1950), Broken Arrow (1950), High Noon (1952), The Robe (1953) and The
Next came Desert Pursuit (1952) with Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey and Bactrian camels! Doucette, along with Anthony Caruso and George Tobias, plays Kafan, one of three Arabs villains in 1870’s Nevada with camels They stalk gold miner Ford Smith (Morris) who is packing his valuable ore and Mary (Grey) who is traveling with the Smith after losing her ob in arson City The film contains an interesting scene when the Arab men with their camels are mistaken for the biblical three wise men when they enter a Christian Native American camp on Christmas Eve.
adversary, King Fisher (Neville Brand), during the final scenes.
He had the type of face and deep voice that everyone remembers but seemingly no one remembers his name He was a versatile actor in many genres who appeared in over 280 movies and television shows spanning 46 years He has the distinction few actors have by appearing in four movies with John Wayne.
Doucette was married to opera singer Katherine Sambles from 1948 until her passing in 1991 They had eight children together Doucette died of cancer at his home in Banning, CA. on August 16, 1994 at age 73.
We are remembering John Doucette’s contribution to Lone Pine filmography this weekend with the screening and tour of Border Treasure.
Sea Chase (1955). The 1960’s were equally as kind to Doucette when he was cast in Cleopatra (1963), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Nevada Smith (1966) and True Grit (1969).
John Doucette
By Greg Parker
His name is John Arthur Doucette – a character actor that has played roles in westerns, crime dramas, war, classic, science fiction and ust about every other genre for two generations. Lone Pine has had the honor of hosting Doucette when he came there to co-star in four movies over the years. He was here beginning in 1950 making Border Treasure (one of this year’s festival screenings and tours) with Tim Holt In this picture Doucette plays the part of Bat, a bad guy who is ailed and then, after he escapes, has to contend with not only Tim Holt but other members of his gang, as well, who have double-crossed him. Holt wants him in Arizona for robbing a caravan of valuables intended for earthquake victims across the nearby border in Mexico ut while in ail Bat’s partner-in-crime and girlfriend, played by House Peters, Jr. and Jane Nigh, plan to run off together with the loot. The film’s climatic shoot-out features locations at the historic Lubken Ranch in Lone Pine.
oucette’s final Lone Pine area film was Nevada Smith (1966) with Steve McQueen and Karl Malden He played the kindhearted Uncle Ben McCanles who offered to take Smith c ueen in after his parents were killed and his home burned. n the first three of these pictures oucette played the antagonist – a role he seemed to typecast in Doucettewell.was
the eldest of three children who was born January 21, 1921 in Brockton, MA. By the time he was in high school his family moved to Los Angeles, CA. where he performed on stage in school plays After graduating from Lincoln High School in LA Doucette began pursuing a professional acting career and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse before getting his first uncredited role in the movie Footsteps in the Dark (1941) Just when it seemed that his career was about to take off World War intervened During the war Doucette served in the S rmy as an infantry ri eman and participated in the infamous Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.
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Doucette’s career reached its apogee in 1970 when he was called on to play a or eneral Lucian Truscott under the command of George C. Scott’s title character in Patton, a film that won an Academy Award® for Best Picture and a Best Actor award for Scott. Later in his career Doucette made the successful transition into the television genre and appeared in dozens of shows including many episodes of The Lone Ranger and Wagon Train. e finally retired from acting in 1 8 .
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JOHN DOUCETTE: Versatile Character Actor in Lone Pine
After Desert Pursuit was The Lonely Man (1957) with Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins in which Doucette plays Sundown Whipple, a cohort of adversary, Blackburn (Claude Akins), from Jacob Wade’s (Palance) gun slinging past During the course of the film Wade loses his eye sight and has to rely on the sight of his estranged son, Riley (Perkins) to help him shoot it out with main
Despite spending most of their working life in all forms of education, from elementary schools to universities, Schnioffsky and Davey have held on to their sanity... barely. Schnioffsky, who loves making little documentarys on cinema history, is a faculty librarian at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Davey, who loves reading about all things Western, is an elementary school librarian. Both happily maintain disorganized lives.
MAVERICK QUEENS: The Women of Lone Pine FridayMuseum3:30pmTheatre
Schnioffsky and Davey created and will present - live via the internet - the presentation MAVERICK QUEENS: The Women of Lone Pine.
Ross Schnioffsky and Warren Davey
These two have been rootin’-tootin’-but-very-little-shootin’ lounge-chair cowboys since Walt Disney dusted off Davy Crockett’s old coonskin cap. They live just west of Lone Pine, in the little frontier town of Melbourne, Australia. TV Westerns arrived in Australia in 1956 and they have loved them ever since.
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But it was Romero, who at 6 feet, 3 inches tall with a captivating smile and his signature
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best remembered for playing the Joker in the Batman pilot, a role that continued into 22 episodes of the Batman TV series from 1966 to 1968 Romero continued working up to the time of his death on January 1, 1994 at age 86 self described confirmed bachelor” he never married or had children.
In The Gay Caballero and The Cisco Kid & The Lady Romero portrays the character, The Cisco Kid – a type of Robin Hood bandit in the old southwest– who is wanted by the law but also has the best interests of ordinary people at heart. He is aided by sidekick, Gordito, played by Chris-Pin Martin In The Cisco Kid & The Lady, and with the help of the Lady (Marjorie Weaver), Romero tries to find a home for an orphan and prevent the child from getting swindled out of an inherited gold mine, all while staying one step in front of the sheriff The film also features a young George Montgomery and a small part by Ward Bond.
CESAR ROMERO: The Latin Lover Comes to Lone Pine
A Cuban-American, Romero was born esar Julio Romero, Jr. on February 1 , 1907 in New York, NY but grew up in New Jersey with the nickname, the Latin from Manhattan is first movie appearance occurred at age 2 in 1 while he was continuing to refine his trade During World War II Romero enlisted in the US Coast Guard where he attained the rank of Chief Boatswains Mate. After the war he continued on with his acting career and eventually was featured in over 100 films.
By Greg Parker
n the 1 0’s Romero made a successful transition to television and appeared in over 70 television shows and TV movies, including recurring roles in Zorro, Rawhide and Daniel Boone. However, he still played in the occasional movie for the big screen like being cast by director John Ford alongside John Wayne in Donovan’s Reef (1963) as the Marquis Andre de Lage In the 1980’s –well into his seventies – Romero was still playing amorous suitors and was the love interest of Jane Wyman’s TV character on Falcon’s Crest. But he will probably always be
We are saluting Cesar Romero’s contribution to Lone Pine filmography this weekend with the screening and tour of The Cisco Kid and The Lady.
Romero possessed the charisma to successfully get the audience rooting for the “bad guy” in the last six of seven Cisco Kid feature films produced by 20th entury Fo between 1939 and 1941 The first in the series, The Return of the Cisco Kid, was released earlier in 1939 and starred Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid with Romero in a supporting role.) The character was so popular that after World War II United Artists produced an additional 8 isco Kid films from 1 to 1 0 This time around the title role was played by Duncan Reynaldo who also went on to portray the character in the Cisco Kid television series from 1 0 to 1 Leo Carillo played the sidekick who was now called Poncho.
Long before Cesar Romero began playing the part of his most memorable role –that of the Joker in Batman: The Movie (1966) – he already was a recognized, accomplished movie actor. In 1947 he starred as the Spanish explorer, Hernan Cortes, in Captain from Castile. Long before that he played one of the suspects, Chris Jorgenson, who was invited to the murderer-revealing dinner by William Powell in the first Thin Man movie in 1934. In between Romero made it to Lone Pine to make three movies – The Cisco Kid & The Lady (1939) (one of this year’s festival screenings and tours), Frontier Marshall (also 1939) and The Gay Caballero (1940). In Frontier Marshall Romero plays the part of Doc Halliday who was involved in the infamous shoot-out at the OK Corral.
pencil mustache that was usually typecast as the tall, dark and suave Latin lover opposite leading ladies such as Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. He sang with Carmen Miranda in Weekend in Havana (1941) and danced the cha-cha with Barbara Eden in How to Marry a Millionaire 1 8 .
Top: Cesar Romero in The Cisco Kid & The Lady, Cesar in Gay Cabellero
Tour Guide, Author
PhotographerMuseumCoordinatorBoardMember
Tyler alone is a writer, professor, and film location hunter. e lives in Los ngeles and writes film, literature, and art criticism for the Los Angeles Times , the LA Review of Books , Poetry, Cineaste, Literary Hub , Roger bert.com, Artforum and elsewhere.
Film Historian
meet your tour guides
Richard W. Bann
on has been attending and learning about labama ills film locations since our first Festival in 1 0. nspiration for pinpointing filming locations comes from Kelsen’s association with Festival co founder ave olland and their work together on ave’s first video n Location in Lone Pine.
hris is an educator, writer and historian, and has lived in and studied the o ave esert for over 0 years. “High & Dry: Dispatches From the Land of Little Rain” are his collaborations with fine art photographer sceola Refetoff. Their work can be found at: desertdispatches.com.
Thomas Kelsey Tour PhotojournalistGuide
Film historian and author of books on Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, W.C. Fields, Hal Roach and John Wayne, Richard’s also a regular essayist for Lone Pine at the Movies - and a major source for 16mm prints for the Film Festival the last 20 years. Bann was vice president of Blackhawk Films and consultant to CMG Worldwide, which represents the estates of Marilyn Monroe, Mark Twain, Babe Ruth, James Dean, Jackie Robinson and others. Bann consult s for the European lm and TV company Kirch Media GmbH which restores and preserves the Hal Roach Studios 35mm nitrate.
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Chris Langley Inyo County CommitteeFestivalCommissionerFilmMember
Tyler Malone Tour Guide, Writer
Don Kelsen Tour
Thomas has skied, fished, hiked and photographed the astern Sierras since the 1 0’s. is career includes staff photographer for nine different newspapers with12 years at the Los Angeles Times. From alifornia’s entral oast, he graduated from al Poly San Luis bispo with a Journalism degree. n 1 81, Kelsey was chosen to be in nsel dams last Workshop in his beloved osemite alley, sparking Kelsey’s life long passion for photography. e has published two books, The Spirit of the West, a 0 year pro ect focused on landscape wildlife photography in the Western United States and 75 Years Later-Warbirds, Airman & Veterans of World War II, a tribute honoring the
Mike went to LA in his 20s to work as a comic strip illustrator for some of the most recognizable strips in history including musclebound Tarzan. Royer’s other contributions include DC and Marvel comics as well as Disney books, characters and theme parks. His favorite motion picture period is the 1930s and the chapter-play/ serials of the 30s and 40s.
Molly Trauscht Tour Guide
From Salt Lake City, Molly is fascinated with geological wonders. With a BS in Geology, Trauscht moved to Bishop, California to immerse herself in her love of rocks, mountains and the high desert. Developing education programs at Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, Molly has led programs and events for non-profits in the Owens Valley. Currently working with Inyo County’s Adult Education and with children in collaboration with the Bishop Paiute Tribe.
Larry Maurice Tour CowboyGuidePoet and Festival Host
A very big Thank You DONto KELSEN 2021 CoordinatorTour
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Larry has spent the last 38 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in Nevada’s Eastern Sierra and
Mike Royer Tour ArtistGuideExtraordinaire
Greg Parker Tour Guide, Festival Committee Member
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Page Williams Tour Guide, PhotographerHistorian,
Page is a California Historian, and a fifth generation native of California. Page spent over 40 years working in the film industry until her retirement five years ago. She is an avid photographer and horsewoman.
Greg - a dedicated Lone Pine movie location hunter - has found over 2000 scene locations for over 180 movies and TV shows in and around Lone Pine that began when he identified the chase scene locations for High Sierra . A graduate of USC, Parker’s lived in Reno, NV since 1978 He’s an avid silent movie buff whose personal film collection includes films dating back to 1903’s “The Great Train Robbery” with “Bronco Billy” Anderson. Retired, Greg now spends his time studying Lone Pine films and continuing to discover new scene locations.
high deserts. When not on a horse, he’s likely performing his brand of Cowboy Poetry. A Lifetime Achievement in Cowboy Poetry Award recipient from the National Cowboy Symposium, Larry’s also received the Academy of Western Artists’ coveted Will Rogers Cowboy Award for Cowboy Poet of the Year. Maurice has been a Lone Pine regular since the Festival’s beginning in 1989.
Fri., Oct. 8: 8:45 am & 2:30 pm Sat., Oct. 9: 2:30 pm
Film Screens Fri., Oct. 8: 7:30 am in the Auditorium
Fri., Oct. 8: 11:30 am Sat., Oct. 9: 11 am Sun., Oct. 10: 2 pm
Presentation Fri., Oct. 8: 10 am in the Museum Theater Please attend before you take the tour.
n the film’s confrontational scene between Mitchum and Reeves, we’ll stand in the virtual footprints where one screen icon lands a left-punch, knocking his screen legend opponent to the ground - all here in the majestic Alabama Hills.
Guide: Richard W. Bann
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Bar 20The Ranch Tour
Ansel Adams Tour
Be sure to catch the screening of this digitally remastered and clear classic and experience for yourselfin real-time - the excitement of the Border Treasure tour as you explore the locations set in the breath-taking Alabama Hills.
Guide: Don Kelsen
Film Screens Fri., Oct. 8: 10:30 am in the Auditorium
Visit the historic Lubken Ranch from the original Bar 20 the first opalong assidy feature film made in 1 . Incredibly, the many books dedicated to westerns film locations - and even our own film festival had all ignored the rich contributions this still-working ranch has made to Western movie history until
travel up into the splendors of Lone Pine scenery via car caravan to tour the Lubken spread. There, we will search for the ghosts of our cowboy heroes: Gene Autry, Randolph Scott, Bob Steele, Tim Holt, Ken Maynard, Fred Humes, Gabby Hayes, Richard Arlen, Big Boy Williams, Bill Cody, Hoot Gibson, Tom Mix, Johnny Mack Brown and Tom Tyler. Or even your favorite Cartwright, as TV’s Bonanza filmed here, too
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Guides: Page Williams & Thomas Kelsey
Fri., Oct. 8: 11:30 am & 2 pm Sat., Oct. 9: 2 pm
Border Treasure Tour
Guide: Greg Parker
ameras encouraged Learn about Ansel Adams and capture your own photos of these beautiful areas. When you get home and look at the photos, send your favorites and we’ll post them on the Lone Pine Film Festival Facebook page.
Robert Mitchum began his motion picture career in the 1940’s as an outlaw in Hopalong assidy films. eorge Reeves, ten years before becoming TV’s legendary “Superman”, was a Hoppy regular, too. In 1943, Mitchum and Reeves co star in the assidy film, Bar 20, marking Mitchum’s fifth appearance and Reeves’ fifth and final appearance in a opalong assidy film.
Bar 20The Movie Tour
Ansel Adams said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Join California Historian Page Williams and Photojournalist Thomas Kelsey to follow in Ansel Adams’ footsteps to five specific sites in which he created images that capture our beautiful landscape.
Sat., Oct. 9: 8 am & 11:30 am Sun., Oct. 10: 8 am
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Released in August 1950 by RKO Pictures, Border Treasure stars Tim Holt as rancher Ed Porter and Richard Martin as sidekick Chito Rafferty, a pair coming to the rescue of a treasure-laden mule train on its way to aid earthquake victims in nearby Mexico.
On this tour we’ll see where the wounded miner was found, where a stagecoach was stopped and the secret location of the gold mine.
Why do filmmakers ock to the Alabama Hills year after year? The answer is simple; the unique landscape. Though these hills have been cherished and featured in over 00 films, they are the true unheard storytellers.
Guide: Greg Parker Sat., Oct. 9: 10:30 am Sun., Oct. 10: 8:30 am & 2:30 pm
Meet at Arch Trail Parking - we will walk the 1 mile loop trail and discuss the geologic story of the Alabama Hills.
Film Screens Sat., Oct. 9: 9:00 am in the Auditorium
Guide: Christopher Langley Sat., Oct. 9: 10 am
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The Cisco Kid & The Lady Tour
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Hear their origin story and how natural processes shaped them for millions of years into their iconic landscape we enjoy today.
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Film Screens Fri., Oct. 8: 2:00 pm in the Auditorium Q&A to follow
Released in December, 1939 by 20th Century Fox, The Cisco Kid & the Lady stars Cesar Romero in the title role. He and sidekick, Gordito (ChrisPin Martin), find a wounded miner with a baby. The dying man gives Cisco a partial map for a gold mine.
Technically, serious Western fans have some requirements for films being called a classic western: Heroes, horses, cattle, bad guys and a western landscape all set somewhere between 1870 to 1900. Directed by iconoclast director Quentin Tarantino, many think of Django Unchained as a western. Do you?
Guide: Molly Trauscht Sat., Oct. 9: 9:30 am & 1 pm Sun., Oct. 10: 9:30 am
Guide: Tyler Malone Sat., Oct. 9: 9 am & 1:30 pm Sun., Oct. 10: 10 am
UnchainedDjango Tour
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A few years before Randolph Scott’s run of films with director Budd Boetticher, Roy Huggins directed him in Hangman’s Knot (1952), an oft-overlooked masterpiece that foresaw a lot of the stylistic and thematic elements (not to mention the Alabama Hills) that would become trademarks of those Scott oetticher films like The Tall T and Ride Lonesome. Scott stars as Major Matt Stewart, leading Confederate soldiers on a mission to attack a wagon of Union gold.
Film Screens Sun., Oct. 10: 9:00 am in the Museum Theater
This tour will take you to several of Django’s spectacular locationsThetour begins in the Museum to see its special exhibit before setting out. The movie Django Unchained will screen Sunday in the Museum as well.
The first half of Hangman’s Knot is shot almost entirely in the Alabama Hills. The second half, mostly at Corriganville Movie Ranch (now a public park in SimiOurValley).tourincludes the site of the gold wagon ambush and a number of other locations from the first half of this iconic motion picture.
Have GunWill Travel Tour
Presentation: Friday Oct. 8: 12:00pm (45 min +)
Please attend before if you are taking the tour.
Join Cowboy Poet Larry Maurice for good fellowship, a spectacular light show, a continental breakfast, a bit of music and some inspiring cowboy poetry to start to your film festival day. In a word: Unforgettable.
You’ll walk right where Wayne and others toiled in the dust and rock of the majestic Alabama Hills, one of Mr. Wayne’s “favorite places of all time.” Take a trip to the Past with your guide Mike Royer - and welcome aboard, Pilgrims!
Our Have Gun - Will Travel tour highlights the expedition Holt and Paladin followed through the Alabama Hills, the route allowing you to experience the same awe this natural grandeur must have been felt by this production over a half-century ago.
Guide: Chris Langley Sun., Oct. 10: 9 am
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Our Maverick tour visits the same locales where Gibson, Foster and James Garner spun their magic, including the “lost” Magician’s cabin, (cut from the final film . on’t forget to ask your guide about the recalcitrant animatronic rattlesnakes during this impressive tour that moves from the Alabama Hills to Owens Lake.
For 31 years, film festival visitors have thrilled to the breathtaking beauty of the Eastern High Sierra’s “Sunrise Tour.” This “photographer’s dream” event is so inspirational that everyone is encouraged to share this special early morning spectacle.Seewhy
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Maverick, directed by the late Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster is a western comedy. Many challenges - including controlling: the length, the character actors, locations and period sets were overcome to make this film popular and fun for the audience.
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Watch the episode in the Museum TheaterMon., Oct.11: 10 am
Tour locations where John Wayne and other cowboy stars helped shape the Hollywood myths of the Old West that never really was, full of hard riding, box canyons and six shooters that never needed reloading!
directors and cinematographers can’t get enough of these spectacular mornings. Watch as the rising sun ignites the peak of Mt. Whitney and brings the majestic Alabama Hills to life.
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Boone, a Lone Pine favorite) is hired to return escaped killer, Manfred Holt (Charles Bronson) to face udge and ury. fter a standoff with authorities, Paladin and Holt form a bond on their journey to justice.
Film is available to watch Check it out from the Museum
Guide: Mike Royer Fri., Oct. 8: 12:45 pm Sat., Oct. 9: 12:30 pm Sun., Oct. 10: 9 am
Guide: Don Kelsen
Tour: Mon., Oct. 11: 10:45 am
Have Gun - Will Travel Season One - Episode Two: “The Outlaw.” Originally broadcast September, 1957, starring Charles Bronson and Peggy
Maverick Tour
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John Wayne and The West That ReallyNeverWas! Tour
Guide: Larry Maurice Sat., Oct. 9: 6 am Sun., Oct. 10: 6 am
The Hitch-Hiker tells the tale a psychopathic hitch-hiker who takes sadistic pleasure in torturing two good Samaritans.
The ThiefCattleTour
Guide: Don Kelsen
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years later - and in this same location - The Cattle Thief director William Witney films the ambush scene in a Republic Pictures serial The Lone Ranger in an area of the Alabama Hills known today as Lone Ranger Canyon.Amillion movies later, uentin Tarantino films Django Unchained here, too.
Guide: Tyler Malone Fri., Oct. 8: 10:15 am Sun., Oct. 10: 8:30 am
Guide: Chris Langley Fri., Oct. 8: 10:30 am
Film Screens Fri., Oct. 8: 9:00 am in the Auditorium
Westward Ho (1935) is one of the best Poverty Row Westerns John Wayne starred in during the 1930s, before his breakthrough role in John Ford’s Stagecoach, this film, directed by Robert N. Bradbury (father of Western star Bob Steele), Westward Ho is the story of young John Wyatt (Wayne), who sees his parents killed and brother Jim (Frank McGlynn Jr.) kidnapped. On a westward wagon train, he meets Jim - now spying for the gang who killed their parents. To complicate matters, John and Jim both fall for Mary Gordon (Sheila Bromley).Joinour
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The Hitch-Hiker: A Classic Film Noir In DaytimeTheIn The Desert Tour
Sat., Oct. 9: 8:45 am Sun., Oct. 10: 8 am & 3 pm
Film Screens Sat., Oct. 9: 7:30 am in the Auditorium
tour to retrace various Westward Ho set locations, including the Singing Riders’ camp site, the locale where Black Bart’s gang is captured, the rock where Wayne remembers his dead family, and, of course, the place where Wayne gets the closing kiss from his Mary.
Join us for The Cattle Thief tour so you can e perience first hand the magic these visionary filmmakers shared with the entire planet.
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Film Screens Fri., Oct. 8: 9:00 am in the Museum Theater
On this tour, you’ll visit several locations: the at tire’ hill, the ‘tin can-shooting’ locale, the well/mine and the “corridors,” overlooking The Cattle Pocket.
Westward Ho Tour
Based on a real event, The Hitch-Hiker is unique on multiple fronts, primarily for being directed by on of the few women directors in the U.S., Ida Lupino. Also unique is the fact that it was filmed almost entirely in the day-lit Alabama Hills.
Ken Maynard, one of the most successful Western Stars of his generation, poses as a peddler by day, but rounds up rustlers through the Alabama Hills at night as the Masked Rider.Two
run for CBS TV’s Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Additionally, Boxleitner is internationally known for his science fiction roles in both the Tron franchise as well as his reoccuring work in the hit series Babylon 5. A skilled horseman, Bruce was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. Boxleitner resides in Los Angeles with his wife, publicist Verena King, and has three sons: Sam, Lee and Michael.
3. Robert Carradine made his first appearances on T ’s western series such as Bonanza and late brother David’s TV series, Kung Fu. arradine’s first film role was in the 1 2 film The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne and Roscoe Lee Browne. Carradine also portrayed fraternity president “Lewis Skolnick” in the Revenge of the Nerds comedy series. In one of the most unusual casting arrangements in movie history, the Carradines played the Younger brothers in The Long Riders (1980) along with three other sets of acting brothers: Stacy and James Keach, Dennis and Randy Quaid, and Christopher and Nicholas Guest.
5. Darby Hinton — Just before he turned 6, actor/ producer/writer Darby Hinton accidentally stood in the wrong line at Twentieth Century Fox and landed the part of Israel Boone with Fess Park on Daniel Boone which ran from 1964-1970 - and still works today in many TV and film pro ects. inton considers some of his most important work to be with the SAG/AFTRA Young Performers Committee, geared to helping the creative youth of today.
6. Cheryl Rogers-Barnett is the adopted daughter of Roy Rogers and his first wife, rline. On a personal appearance in allas, Roy stopped off to visit the babies at Hope Cottage. As Roy told it, all the babies would cry when he leaned over their cribs - all, that is, except Cheryl, who grasped his finger, smiled and cooed. e said it was love at first sight. She is the author of Cowboy Princess and Cowboy Princess Rides Again. Cheryl and her husband Larry are the co-producers of two documentaries, Roy Rogers: In His Own Words and Dale Evans: A Most Remarkable Woman,” both available as a DVD set.
7. William Wellman Jr., son of Hollywood’s legendary director, “Wild Bill” Wellman, he spent most of his childhood around filmdom’s celebrities. His neighborhood was filled with them: Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Peter
1. Patrick Wayne is the son of famed Academy Award-winning actor, John Wayne, and godson of Oscar® winning director, John Ford. He’s a veteran of over 35 motion pictures, four television series, numerous TV episodes and commercials. He began his acting career at the age of 11. any of the films Wayne has appeared in have become memorable examples of American motion picture making. His credits include The Long Grey Line, Mister Roberts, The Searchers, and McLintock! to name but a few.
4. Bruce Boxleitner starred on Broadway in Status Quo Vadis with Ted Danson and in Los Angeles, after notable roles in films and TV, Bruce endeared himself to fans everywhere in a four-year
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Celebrity Guests
2. Claude Jarman Jr. was discovered in a nationwide talent search, chosen out of 10,000 boys to star with Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in the classic film, The Yearling and received a special Academy Award® for his performance as “Jody.” Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Roddy McDowell and Margaret O’Brien were young Claude’s classmates at MGM until he left for 1960s San Francisco, becoming Executive Director of the S.F. International Film Festival until 1980. Jarman lives in California with his wife Katie and their twin daughters Charlotte and Sarah.
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“Memories of Lonesome Dove,” a live event with Robert Duvall; writing/producing Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone for CBS and Western Roundup starring Roy Rogers for PBS; marketing of the mini-series Lonesome Dove; producing 13 half-hours of Young Duke: The Series, and Executive Producer for Roy Rogers: An American Hero for A&E’s Biography.
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11. Diamond Farnsworth is an accomplished stuntman and stunt coordinator on the shows NCIS, JAG and Quantum Leap. Diamond is the son of Academy Award® winning actor/ stuntman Richard Farnsworth, a treasured guest of the Festival. Beginning his career in 1968 and serving as stunt double in Paint Your Wagon, Diamond went on to double for Sylvester Stallone in First Blood, Rambo and Rhinestone, as well as doubling for Kevin ostner, ennis uaid and Jeff Bridges.
John’s performed stunts in Me, Myself & Irene, Ocean’s Eleven, the crime thriller Crank, war drama Flags of Our Fathers, and TV series Everybody Hates Chris and Medium. He also worked as stunt coordinator on the comedy What Planet Are You From?, the fantasy comedy Bedazzled, the comedy Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
Jay C. Munns has been entertaining audiences for nearly five decades, specializing in vintage American music from saloon piano to the great hits of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. He has performed for two U.S. presidents and entertained countless celebrities including Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, as well as movie directors from Hal Roach and Mervyn Leroy to Steven Spielberg.
12. John Moio is a stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director, serving as stunt coordinator for Star Trek: The Next Generation first season.
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10. Steve Latshaw’s writer, producer and director duties keep him in constant demand. From Decatur, IL, Steve started in radio and TV before booking a bit on the set of Ron Howard’s Parenthood, then more acting roles before finding his true niche behind the camera. After producing a string of successful horror and sci fi movies, these days, Latshaw is busy in a variety of ventures: an avid film collector and historian, he is privileged to be a part of the team responsible for the restoration of Roy Rogers final film, Mackintosh and T.J. He has a passion for western films, Republic Pictures and the works of director William
13. Rob Word - a founder and producer of the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s prestigious Golden Boot Awards and an Emmy® writer/producer.nominatedWord’slove of the West informs his work. His Western credits include: hosting, producing and directing the YouTube interview series “A Word on Westerns” recordedcom/user/AlgonquinCowboy)(www.youtube.attheAutryMuseum;
14. Larry Maurice is Lone Pine’s favorite Cowboy Poet and Master of Ceremonies. He has spent the last twenty years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. A sought after entertainer, not only for his cowboy poetry that speaks from the heart of the day-to-day cowboy, but also for his ability to breathe life into the history of the American West.
Lawford and William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd to name just a few. If they weren’t coming to his family home, he met them at theirs, or on the sets and locations of 2 of his father’s films. is first girlfriend was Jane Fonda.
Witney Steve’s photo essays of alifornia’s western film locations have garnered him a huge Facebook following.
8. Wyatt McCrea, oldest grandchild of the late actor Joel McCrea and actress wife Frances Dee, he’s the co-owner of Third Point Productions Wyatt served as Associate Producer for the series Gen’s Guiltless Gourmet on the ION Network, and serves as Executive Producer for several projects, including the release of the documentary Floating Horses – The Story of Casey Tibbs. He was featured as Deputy Walt Tyler in the 2015 Western feature Canyon Trail and appears in both print and web advertising on the cable series Call 911 and the History channel’s series Big History
16. Mark Wanamaker is a renowned film historian and lecturer, founding Bison Archives in 1971, a leading and rich repository of motion picture history. He’s given numerous interviews in documentaries related to motion picture history and is founder of the Los Angeles International Film Exposition. In 2012, Marc donated over 70,000 photographs from his private collection to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Wanamaker’s vast expertise has led to an appointment as program consultant with the Pordenone Silent Film Conference in Italy and he continues to tap into his vast film history knowledge as contributor to several historical film festivals, conferences, and programs, including our own.
15. Jay C. Munns
9. Jay Dee Witney has worked on many TV shows and feature films, including Bonanza, Laredo, The Virginian, Mission Impossible, Gomer Pile USMC, Man From UNCLE, Dragnet, The Graduate, The Steagle, and Misery - not surprising, as his father was famed director, William Witney, and his mother was actress Maxine Doyle. Director John (Jack) English, his father’s best friend and partner on many Republic serials, was his godfather and actress Virginia Carroll, his godmother.
28 2021 Lone Pine Film Festival Souvenir Program ACCOMMODATIONS ★ Pull-Thru Sites ★ Big Rig Access ★ Shade Trees ★ Pets Allowed Tents Allowed ★ Family Friendly Clean Showers and Restrooms A Great Place to Stay! Enjoy our sparkling swimming pool, jacuzzi, clean laundry facilities, gift shop, convenience store, clubhouse and more... All with breathtaking views of Owens Valley, the Inyo and Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain ranges.
Sunday, October 10th, 9:00am at The Anchor Ranch
Friday 9am - 6pm • Saturday 9am - 7pm with MARIACHI ORIGINAL DE MEXICO 5-7pm Sat. nite Sunday 9am to 3pm CAMPFIRE at 7:30pm
Parking behind the Museum, to catch the bus
When Hollywood comes to a small town and Main Street is lined with fans, a lively show is sure to please the crowd. Come see the cowboys, the kids, the costumes, the vintage cars, the stars, the horses and mules, the school bands, and the Future Farmers of America, and all the other colorful folk who make up the best small town parade in America!
Friday, October 8th, 8am - approx 10:30am $150.00/per person, call for reservations: 760 935-4324 (McGee Creek Pack Station)
Closing Campfire
“This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.”
ART IN THE PARK - Spainhower Park
Arts & Crafts, Food, and Music
Wrangler HorsebackRideRide in the Alabama Hills,
Sunday, October 10th, 7:30pm at Spainhower Park Gather ‘round y’all for this Lone Pine Film Festival Tradition
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Cowboy Church
Another favorite Lone Pine Film Festival tradition, Sunday Morning Cowboy Church is led by pastor Greg Rickets. The Cowboy Church is a popular destination for many annual festival goers. This year’s Cowboy Church will be held at the Anchor Ranch. The music and Western-themed sermon takes on a special meaning as the worshipers sit in this beautiful venue under the Eastern Sierra and Mount Whitney. Truly, an exceptional morning!
unday, October 10th starting at 1:00 PM on Main Street
Sunday evening, just at dusk, the entire crowd gathers for the Closing Campfire at Lone Pine’s Spainhower Park at the North end of town. Hosted by long-time Festival supporter and cowboy poet, Larry Maurice, this Lone Pine tradition features old fashioned pickin’ and singin; tall tales of the West, and the lore of the cowboy. Gather ‘round the campfire and share our farewell moment, as the Annual Lone Pine Film Festival draws to a close.
SParade
The “Cowboy Church” book is available for sale at the Museum for $12.50. “Cowboy Church” by Rev. Ben Sparks is a collection of sermons given by him during Sunday’s Cowboy Church at the annual Film Festival.
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TOUR
Directed by Roy Huggins
Friday, Museum Theater 9:00 am 71 min
Directed by Lesley Selander and starring William Boyd, Robert Mitchum, Victor Jory, George Reeves. Stagecoach robber Mark Jackson (Jory) has a scheme to steal the deed to Adams’ (Mitchum) land ro ing Adams’ fianc of her ewels and stealing Hoppy’s (Boyd) cattle money, spurring Hoppy and his pals to go after the ro ers
OPENING NIGHT
Friday, Auditorium, 2:00 pm, 81 min
Friday, Auditorium, 7:30 am, 58 min
Thursday, Auditorium, 7:00 pm 96 min
Q&A Introduced & moderated ler alone A with Claude Jarman Jr.
Starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed and Claude arman r A troop of Confederate soldiers led a or att Stewart Scott raid a nion ca alr wagon of gold and all e cept one of the nion soldiers are killed. The survivor sa s the war ended a month ago ow fearing murder charges, a Stewart leads Jamie Groves (Jarman) and his other soldiers into hiding. Capturing a coach driven by nurse Molly Hull (Reed), the soldiers try to evade a group of andits who want the gold
Red River (1988)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Directed by Richard Michaels. Starring Bruce Boxleitner, James Arness, regor arrison, Stan Shaw and a alston After the Ci il ar, rancher homas unson Arness leads a dangerous cattle dri e across e as with a team that includes his adopted son, atthew o leitner , and lack cow o ack rd Shaw a presence that anno s some of the white cow o s earful of ndians and struggling through the dr terrain, unson’s men grow increasingl unhapp with his authoritarian wa s as re ellious son atthew goes to work for another ranch, infuriating his father Q&A ntroduced moderated o ord A with ruce o leitner
Directed by Ida Lupino and starring Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lo e o , illiam alman wo kindl fishermen ’ rien, Lo e o pick up a ps chopathic hitch hiker alman who takes sadistic pleasure torturing the good Samaritans and promising murder as their final destination
Hangman’s Knot (1952) TOUR
Screenings i thursday oct. 7 & friday oct. 8
Bar 20 (1943)
TOUR
Rio Grande (1950)
TOUR
Friday, Auditorium, 9:00 am, 61 min
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Border Treasure (1950)
Friday, Auditorium, 10:30 am, 60 min
The Cattle Thief (1936) TOUR
Screenings l friday oct. 8 & Saturday Oct. 9
INTRODUCED by Diamond Farnsworth.
Friday, Auditorium, 7:30 pm, 105 min
Saturday, Auditorium, 7:30 am, 58 min
TOUR
Friday, Auditorium, 12:00 noon, 92 min
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Ken Maynard, Ward Bond. Ken Martin (Maynard), poses as a peddler by day, but rounds up rustlers at night as the Masked Rider.
Directed by Robert N. Bradbury. Starring John Wayne, Sheila Bromley and Frank McGlynn Jr.. Young John Wyatt (Wayne) sees his parents killed and brother Jim (McGlynn) kidnapped. On a westward wagon train, he meets Jim John and Jim both fall for Mary Gordon (Bromley).
Directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen ’ ara, Claude arman r A ca alr officer a ne posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous Apaches, a son (Jarman), a risk-taking recruit and his wife (O’Hara) from whom he’s been separated for many years. Q&A Introduced & moderated by Rob Word. Q&A with Claude Jarman Jr. and Patrick Wayne.
Westward Ho (1935)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Directed by Archainbaud.GeorgeStarring Tim Holt, John Doucette, Inez Cooper. To help Mexico’s earthquate victims, Anita Cortez (Cooper) transports money and treasure over the border - but Bat (Doucette) and his gang have other plans.
Directed by Phillip Borsos and starring Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue. Based on a true story. Stagecoach robber Bill Miner forheist,Afterbutre-emerges(Farnsworth)fromprison,setinhisoldways.asuccessfulrailwayMilner’snotbuiltsettlingdown.
Saturday, Theater, 7 min
Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) TOUR
The Showdown (2006)
Directed by Theodore Carl Flood and starring Cal Bartlett. An old, bedridden sheriff struggles to separate tattered realities as death taps the carcass of his mind.
COMING ATTRACTIONS!
Auditorium, 11:00 am, 90 min
Saturday, Auditorium, 9:00 am, 74 min
Cosmo (2021)
Saturday, Theater, 16 min
Directed by Manuel Ruiz and starring MacKenzie Hoffman, Theodore Carl Flood. When Vincent (Flood), a petty conman, fails at disability fraud, he decides to escalate his crimes to become a better provider for his wife (Hoffman).
featuring excerpts from Apocalypse Cowboy (2021) Saturday, Theater
Directed by Jason Brown
Directed by Jeremy Lee Camp. Starring Ryley Doyle, Kate Aviles, Rob Gill. Saddened by her father’s (Gill) passing, young Alanna (Doyle) and Mom (Aviles) take a trip to Lone Pine, CA leading to both unexpected and heart-felt adventures.
tHe uNspoken bAdge Saturday,(2021) Theater, 29 min
Directed by Thomas Thomas, Starring La Trice Harper, Jeremy John Wells, Andrew Stroud. Law-woman Jane Montana (Harper) confronts outlaw Buford (Wells) and his gang to rescue a helpless damsel. Tension builds as Jane has two bullets against three bad hombres.
All Else Fails (2021)
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Saturday, Theater, 17 min Written and Directed by Antony & Fulvio Sestito. The story of a pitcher and batter in a high-stakes baseball game juxtaposed against a deadly duel between two gunslingers in the Old West.
Saturday, Theater, 11:00 am, 72 min
Directed by Joseph Kane. Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette. Gene Autry is sent to persuade landowners to sell their property, the ranchers are manipulated to hold out for more money.
Directed by William A. Wellman. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy. 100-year-old Hannah Hoyt (Stanwyck) recounts her life with capricious husband Ethan (McCrea) and his rival for Hannah’s affections, Steely Edwards (Donlevy).
Lone Pine (2021) Saturday, Theater, 8 min
In Old Monterey (1939)
Screenings n Saturday, Oct. 9
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds and starring Cesar Romero, Marjorie Weaver, ChrisPin Martin. Cisco saves an orphan - heir to a gold mine - whose father is killed by bandits.
The Great Man’s Lady Saturday,(1941)
Somewhere in Sonora Sunday,(1933)
TOUR Sunday, Theater, 9:00 am, 165 Directedmin by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Jamie Foxx, Christopher Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio. Free slave Django (Foxx) and mentor Dr. Schultz (Waltz) head to the antebellum South to rescue Django’s wife from Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
SCrEEniNGS i saturday oct. 9 & Sunday Oct. 10
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Long Riders (1980) Saturday, Auditorium, 7:30 pm, 100 min Directed by Walter Hill and starring David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid. During a bank robbery by the legendary James-Younger Gang, Ed Miller (Quaid) kills a man. Jesse James (Keach) angrily directs Cole Younger (Carradine) and the gang to scatter until the heat dies down. As they re-group for an ill-fated heist, a spectacular chase ensues. Q&A Introduced & moderated by Rob Word. Q&A with Robert Carradine.
Directed by Mack V. Wright. Starring John Wayne, Shirley Palmer, Ralph Lewis. John Bishop (Wayne) discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary’s (Palmer) father (Lewis).
Hidden Valley (1932) Sunday, Auditorium, 10:30 am, 57 min
Auditorium, 9:00 am, 58 min
by Raul Walsh. Starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart. Fresh out of prison, Roy Earle attempts to mastermind the robbery of a California casino.
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Directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette. Elected to congress, Roy Rogers strives to show his town’s Dust Bowl devastation.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) Sun., Auditorium, 2:30 pm, 161 min
Under Western Stars (1938) Saturday, Auditorium, 2:30 pm, 65 min
Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie. Actor Rick Dalton iCaprio struggles to find meaningful work in a fast-changing Hollywood. Fate brings him and stunt-double buddy Cliff Booth (Pitt) into contact with neighbor Sharon Tate (Robbie), and the twisted, homicidal Manson Family.
Directed by R. N. Bradbury. Starring Bob Steele, A cowboy (Steele), falsely arrested for murder, tries to find the true killer
Django Unchained (2012)
High Sierra (1941) Sunday Auditorium 2:45 pm, 100 Directedmin
With Steve Latshaw, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and the remastering team from Visual Data Media Services.
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Claude Jarman Jr. in Rio Grande (1950)
After Chuck met and fell in love with his wife, ary ae,hefinishedastintinthe military, then they moved to Bishop where Chuck sold insurance for 38 years, and Mary Mae taught school, raised their family, and living out their lives. After their retirements, they both became exemplars of how you serve your community as volunteers…and boy, have they ever! And our world is a better place for it.
In Memoriam
John Robert (Jack) Minton, a longtime resident of Ridgecrest, died on Nov. 29, 2019.Jack was born on October 31, 1934, in Willows, CA. Jack graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena majoring in industrial design and graduating in Jack1957.had a passion for cars. His admiration for designandfinecraftsmanshipformed the foundation for what would become a lifelong hobby of collecting, restoring, and maintaininga eet of mericanclassiccars.
Jack possessed a photographic memory for body styles and details, interior and exterior colors and accents, and could recite the attributes of a given car by the model and year. He was forever a fan of the 1 0 s 1 0 s uicksofhisyouth.
Rest in Peace, “Mr. Bishop.”
Kerry cherished her two sons, Gary (Cathy) Powell, Minden, NV, and Martin Powell, Lone Pine. Dearest sister to LuElla (Larry) Green, Arroyo Grande, CA, Valarie (John) Burton, Sun Valley, CA, and Carla (Paul) Grace, Burbank, CA. Beloved grandmother to Travis (Jennifer) Powell, Lone Pine, Jared Powell, Lake Arrowhead, CA, Colin Powell, Reno, NV, Whitney (Steve) DeOreo, Healdsburg, CA, and Breanne (Matt) Thompson, Ventura. CA. She leaves behind 4 great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Jack’s community spirit extended north to Lone Pine where he coordinated obtaining convertible classics for celebrities attending the annual Lone Pine Film Festival parade every October. He and his team of volunteers washed, waxed, tuned, and created celebrity name signs for every vehicle.Formany years Jack also provided cars for the Lone Pine High School homecoming. Payment came in the form of dinner with friends at his favorite Lone Pine restaurant, The Merry Go Round. On one occasion Jack provided a car as a prop for the Museum of Western Film History’s annual Concert in the Rocks.
Jack remained close to his extended family, sharing holidays and special events. He attended the weddings of all of his nieces and nephews, regardless of location and wasalwaysthefirst to reach outintimesof need. He was an anchor for the family, had a “heart of gold,” and will be deeply missed.
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Charles “Chuck” J. Kilpatrick, who died Wednesday, Dec. 30, after a battling COVID-19. Kilpatrick was a man who was not just well-known, he was admired and adored by almost everyone that ever had the pleasure of meeting or working with him. The Inyo Register newspaper, on whose pages his name and photo often graced, called him a “small town hero.” He was of course that and much more. The Inyo Register chronicled many of his accomplishments and service to the community over many years.
Jack Minton
Shespentmanysummersfishingthe High Sierra and her enthusiasm for nature, thearts,travelingandfishingwasshared amongst her children, grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. An accomplished painter, she was active in the Inyo County art scene. She loved taking friends and family to the Alabama Hills and sharing the beauty of the Owens Valley. She and Ray traveled the world in their RV and airplane and had many wonderful adventures. Kerry was a great asset to the town, teaching swimming to local children, donating time, knowledge and monetarily to the Film History Museum and to the Southern Inyo Hospital. She took pride in helping paint the murals on the local town buildings.
There was never a goodwill ambassador the likes of Chuck Kilpatrick. He was a oneman Booster Club, the Head Cheerleader of all the wonderful and great things about our Bishop community and Inyo County. He was kind. He was generous. He always seemed to be smiling or laughing. He was energetic and enthusiastic. He was a walking, talking historian of all things Bishop-related with an amazing memory of names, places, and events from years past. Chuck is truly a man who will be missed.
Donations may be made in her name to the Lone Pine Film History Museum.
Chuck Kilpatrick
So much of Chuck’s life was dedicated to promoting goodwill for the Bishop Area.
Our Co-Founder, Kerry Ellen Christenson Powell, passed away peacefully on December 22 at High Desert Haven, Ridgecrest, CA, joining her beloved husband Raymond. She was born on March 19, 1933 near Keeler, CA. A lifetime resident of Lone Pine. She helped Ray at the Best Western Frontier Motel and co-founded the Lone Pine Film Festival which started in 1989.
We bid farewell to Kerry Powell
