Word: gunfight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporate film wave. It has an allure not confined to members of FORTUNE'S august list of the 500 largest U.S. industrial companies. Kirk Douglas, after 25 years as one of Hollywood's most backable stars, recently had trouble raising money for A Gunfight, a property with a strong screenplay starring himself and Johnny Cash (see CINEMA). Then the Jicarilla Apaches, a wealthy Indian tribe (gas leases and mineral rights) with a sophisticated investment policy offered to put up the entire $2 million. For once, it was the Indians to the rescue...
Another western for swingers. Doc, Frank Perry's new film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after the gunfight, she bought an airplane ticket in nearby San Francisco for a flight to Los Angeles...
...scene required the leading man to enter a boudoir where Actress Karen Black, 27, reclined in a costume consisting of nothing but makeup. Absolutely not, said Johnny Cash, 38, Nashville's country-and-western singer, in Hollywood for his first starring film role in A Gunfight. "How could I do that and then record an album of hymns?" he demanded. To spare Johnny that moral crisis, Karen's topography was concealed...