FILM SCHEDULE
2014
FRIDAY
Films and Discussions 7:00 am Dynamite Pass (RKO, 1950) Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Lynne Roberts – TOUR This special screening for the Tim Holt tour in the Alabama Hills is open FILM to anyone with a festival button. 61 minutes. 8:30 am The Bar 20 Ranch Tour hosted by Richard Bann. A presentation with TOUR film clips that support the Bar 20 tour. Open to anyone with a festival FILM button. 9:45 am Loaded Pistols (Columbia, 1948) Gene Autry, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills – An early Autry production released by Columbia where Gene goes it alone with no sidekick. A nice mix of location shots mixing scenes filmed in Lone Pine with those filmed at Iverson’s Ranch in Chatsworth. Good music. 68 minutes. RICHARD WIDMARK Centennial
100 YEARS 11:15 am Yellow Sky (20th Century Fox, 1948) Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter – A gang on the run from a posse comes upon a young woman and her grandfather prospector in a desert ghost town in this William Wellman film. 98 minutes.
LOADED PISTOLS
1:00 pm Death Valley Days – Steve Wystrach, who is leading the restoration of this classic series, will present a discussion about the process and introduce two restored episodes, one b&w and one color. Our guest Donna Martell will join him. DISCUSSION 3:00 pm Comanche Station (Columbia, 1960) Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins – The last of the Scott, Kennedy and Boetticher collaborations, the screening will be followed by a conversation with Sandra Tyler, Scott’s daughter, and author/historian Ed Hulse. 74 minutes. DISCUSSION 7:00 pm Gunga Din (RKO, 1939) Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen – Many believe this George Stevens classic is the most important movie filmed entirely in Lone Pine. Academy Award® winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron will examine the film’s 1939 “state of the art” visual and sound effects to show how this masterpiece was created having Lone Pine stand in for the exotic settings of India. 117 minutes.
YELLOW SKY
DISCUSSION
COMANCHE STATION GUNGA DIN COVER photo: RANDOLPH SCOTT, Comanche Station
SATURDAY
Films and Discussions
7:00 am Secrets of the Wasteland (Paramount, 1941) William Boyd, Andy Clyde, TOUR Brad King – A screening of the Hoppy film for the tour in the Alabama FILM Hills is open to anyone with a festival button. 66 minutes. 8:30 am The Bar 20 Ranch Tour hosted by Richard Bann. A presentation with TOUR film clips for the Bar 20 tour. Open to anyone with a festival button. FILM
9:45 am Under Western Stars (Republic, 1938) Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette – Roy’s first film has him running for congress during a battle over water rights. A highlight is the song “Dust”, the only song from a B Western to be nominated for an Academy Award®. 65 minutes. 11:15 am Beyond The Rockies (RKO Pathé, 1932) Tom Keene, Rochelle Hudson – A notorious gunfighter goes to work for a ranch in hopes of finding the killer of a friend. Locations go back and forth from Placerita Canyon and the Alabama Hills. 55 minutes. 12:30 pm Gunsmoke Ranch (Republic, 1937) Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune – The Three Mesquiteers try to warn settlers that the land agent who brought them to the Gunsmoke Ranch is a swindler and can not be trusted. 55 minutes.
WILLIAM BOYD
1:45 pm Frontier Days (Spectrum, 1934) Bill Cody, Ada Ince, Wheeler Oakman – This interesting independent film was directed by Robert Hill, one of the top B-Western directors, and takes advantage of all of the various Lone Pine locations from the hills to the town itself. 61 minutes. 3:00 pm King of the Pecos (Republic, 1936) John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Cy Kendall – This pre-Stagecoach John Wayne is far from the best Western he ever made but certainly a cut above most of the B Westerns he had made up to this point in his career and remains a fan favorite. 55 minutes 4:10 pm Actor Ed Faulkner discusses his career in Westerns, both in feature films and television, with special emphasis on the films he made with John Wayne. DISCUSSION
ROY ROGERS ON LOCATION IN LONE PINE
7:00 pm Longe do Oeste (Far From the West) (2013) This short film is about Paulo Tardin, a Brazilian, who is one of the largest collectors of American Westerns in the world and a great fan of Lone Pine and the Festival. 20 minutes. 7:30 pm The Macahans (Warner Bros, 1976) James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Bruce Boxleitner – This stand-alone TV movie became the pilot for the How the West Was Won series with the same cast. 118 minutes. Following the movie, Bruce Boxleitner and author/historian Ed Hulse will discuss Bruce’s career and the state of television Westerns today. DISCUSSION
KING OF THE PECOS
BRUCE BOXLEITNER AND JAMES ARNESS IN THE MACAHANS
SUNDAY 8:30 am Charge of the Light Brigade (Warner Bros, 1936) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles – Lone Pine stands in for India in this story of revenge for a previous massacre of men, women and children. 115 minutes. 10:45 am Posse From Hell (Universal, 1961) Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert – A tough deputy leads a posse on the trail of four prison escapees who have kidnapped a woman after killing the sheriff of a small Western town. 89 minutes. RICHARD WIDMARK Centennial
100 (20th Century Fox, 1958) Robert YEARS 2:00 pm The Law and Jake Wade Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens –John Sturges, the director of Bad Day at Black Rock, returned to Lone Pine for this gritty story of former friends now on opposite sides of the law. 86 minutes.
3:45 pm From Hell to Texas (20th Century Fox, 1958) Don Murray, Diane Varsi – Another vastly underrated film that happens to be one of the scarcest of the later Westerns, intelligently tells the story of a naïve young cowboy on the run for his life when he accidently kills the son of a wealthy rancher. Great Alabama Hills locations. 100 minutes. THE LAW AND JAKE WADE
IN THE MUSEUM THEATRE - SUNDAY at 5:00 pm
5:00 pm - One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct 6:00 pm Travel along with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio as they perform “One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct,” a commemorative artist action to reconnect Los Angeles to its water supply by walking the entire 240-mile route of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with a team of 100 mules. The action marked the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which started bringing water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 1913. Following the film, the artist Lauren Bon will be present for a Q & A along with Jen and Lee Roeser (8 Mile Ranch/McGee Pack Station), who hired the mules and directed the wranglers. DISCUSSION