Nevada Smith [videorecording] / a Paramount Picture ; Joseph E. Levine presents ; Paramount Pictures Corporation, Embassy Pictures Corp. and Solar Productions, Inc. ; screen story and screenplay by John Michael Hayes ; produced and directed by Henry Hathaway.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 06532 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2003]Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792181719
- 9780792181712
- Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; editor, Frank Bracht ; music, Alfred Newman.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated by their hostility toward the mixed nature of the marriage, since the wife is a Native American. Swearing revenge, the young cowhand enlists the help of itinerant gunsmith Jonas Cord Brian Keith, who teaches him how to shoot while counseling against revenge. Nonetheless, Sand doggedly scours one town after the other before finally running up against one of the murderers, Jesse Coe (Martin Landau). He finally kills Coe in a vicious knife fight, but is severely wounded himself and has to be nursed back to health by Neesa (Janet Margolin), a young Kiowa woman. He next heads for Louisiana where another of the murderous trio, Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy), is serving a prison sentence in a remote swamp. In order to get close to the man, Sand stages a robbery, and is soon among the prison inmates. This was the only film on which McQueen worked with Landau, the only other person admitted to the Actor's Studio out of thousands of applicants in 1957. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi
Based on the character in "The carpetbaggers" created by Harold Robbins.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; editor, Frank Bracht ; music, Alfred Newman.
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette.
Nevada Smith is a rugged innocent boy born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, Region 1, Dolby digital mono., widescreen, enhanced for 16x9 TVs.
English or French soundtrack with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.