USA,
1965, 83 min
Shown in 1966
CREDITS
- dir
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Monte Hellman
- prod
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Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Roger Corman
- scr
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Jack Nicholson
- cam
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Gregory Sandor
- editor
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Monte Hellman
- mus
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Robert Drasnin
- cast
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Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Katherine Squire, Rupert Crosse, Dean Stanton, George Mitchell, Tom Filer
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COMMENTS
Screened as a part of the New Directors series. Monte Hellman and Jack Nicholson appeared in person.
This year, Monte Hellman was discovered at the European film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Pesaro) and at Montreal. At each he was highly praised for his unusual approach to the traditional American Western. In two works, The Shooting and Ride the Whirlwind, he has succeeded in capturing the beauty, hardship and sad ironies of life in the unsettled West, without neglecting the terse, uncommunicative violence of its people and the presence of needless death.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #44
Fred Astaire (alas without his top hat and tails) became the first actor honored with an in-person tribute at the Festival October 30, 1966. Astaire so enjoyed his interview with Festival programmer Albert Johnson, the balletic performer danced with his host onstage.
