Dinero, mujeres y sueños

Some thieves want to take the gold of a humble prospector, as they arrive in his mine and one of them takes his life . But before dying the prospector arranges to scrabble his will and to murder two of his assailants and while the third flees. Later on, a detective bounty hunter Silver Hogan : Jock Mahoney , is assigned the mission to track down the legitimate heirs and to solve who is the murderer who killed the old prospector. Along the way, the famous gunfighter Silver Hogan joins forces a young man : Tim Hovey and meets a beautiful widow :Kim Hunter and her child.

Decent Western with intriguing premise to discover a real heir as well as the nasty killer who robbed a loot of gold. It is a mystery, intriguing Western with whodunit touches. It contains enjoyable performances from a decent main and support cast. However, too much conversation and too little action , at times, although fights, crossfire and suspense are nice. And at the end the subsequent plot twist in which truth comes out, including the killer's true identity. This is a suspenseful and twisted Westen in which Jock Mahoney playing a two-fisted detective looking for a killer with unexpected consequences. Not very known actor Jock Mahoney was an acceptable player who had a passable cinematic career. When WWII broke out, he drafted as a Marine fighter pilot and instructor. In Hollywood he was a noted stunt man, doubling for John Wayne, Errol Flynn and Gregory Peck. Gene Autry signed him for the lead in his 78-episode The Range Rider TV. He tested to replace Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan but lost out to Lex Barker. In 1960 he played the heavy in Tarzan the Magnificent with Gordon Scott and his part there led producer Sy Weintraub to hire him as Scott's replacement. Finally, he played the title role in Tarzan goes to India and Tarzan's 3 challenges, doing his own stunts. Eventually, he went on working in spite of dysentery, dengue fever and pneumonia. However, by this time producer Sy Weintraub was looking a younger Tarzan and envisioning a future TV star he found Ron Ely, then by mutual agreement , the contract between Jock Mahoney and Weintraub was dissolved. Here Jock Mahoney is well accompanied by good secondaries such as : Kim Hunter, Gene Evans, Lon Chaney Jr, Tom Drake Jeffrey Stone, William Campbell, Judi Emerich, William Campbell, among others .

It packs a colorful and brilliant cinematography by notorious cameraman Philip H. Lathrop. As well as atmospheric musical score by Herman Stein and Irving Gertz, Universal's regular. This motion picture was professionally directed by Richard Barlett. He was a Western expertise as TV as Cinema. As he directed a lot of westerns, such as : Two-gun lady, The lonesome trail, The silver star, Joe Dakota aso starred by Jock Mahoney, the sam as this Money, Women and Guns. Rating 6/10. Decent, but not notable oater that will appeal to Western enthusiasts.

A prospector has been murdered. He has left a will splitting a quarter of a million dollars among five heirs. The problem is no one is sure who they are. Detective Jock Mahoney is assigned to track them down, and to figure out why the dead man chose them.

Maohoneyis rather stiff in his line readings, and his outfit looks odd, all velveteen and bright silver buttons for riding the range. Even so, it's an interesting Shaky A western from Universal, not only for the figuring out of the why of the mystery, but for some casting, including Kim Hunter, and James Gleason in his last screen role.

This was a fair western but Jock and Tim Hovey worked well together. He finally got his chance to show his stuff. Actually, my mom's favorite western was "Slim Carter" about a man changing his ways over a kid. Mr. Mahoney was in a lot of movies but for a long time you never saw his face, just his riding skill on a white horse. Eventually he was shown as a Texas Ranger chasing the Durango Kid over rooftops and finally jumping off a roof onto the white horse. Part of the time Jock was literally chasing himself. My favorite DK series was "Bandits of El Dorado". There were so many well known names..John Dehner,Fred Sears, Lewis, and of course...Clayton Moore, whose voice I recognized instantly as the future Lone Ranger. In the movie of this subject, Jock looked like a powerful man, large shoulders small waist, and could ride a horse like he was part of it. Thanks for letting me share.

This would have been a "prestige" western at the time, in color and Cinemascope, with recognizable stars. It keeps your interest despite the many broken promises. First of all, the Cinemascope lens was plopped down on soundstages, wasting the panorama. The title is misleading. "Money" figures in the plot, granted. But I counted only two "Women." Neither projected the woman in the lobby poster (a soiled dove stripped down to her skivvies), being, instead, hardy frontier stock. And "Guns" suggests action that never really materializes. Jock Mahoney was a legendary stuntman. He was pushing 40 by the time of this production, but still had a couple Tarzan roles in his future. You can see effortless grace in his movement, apparently weightless. Horseback, Mahoney appears to glide across the prairie hovering above his pounding steed. Mahoney's fight choreography was unsurpassed until the Hong Kong kung fu school a generation later. The script and direction simply declined to tap the resource. The fashion in westerns by the late '50s had shifted from action to the talk-burdened, angsty "psychological western." In the early '50s there was a glut of syndicated half-hour westerns to fill the maw of local programming until networks could supply their own content. These were unabashed orgies of fistfight, shoot-out and horseplay (I mean on horses), with surprising amounts of plot - and absolutely no suspense: the hero brought the bad guy to justice. Within their formula, these actioners were brilliant catalogs of stunt work. They far surpassed the action scenes in big budget big screen productions. (John Wayne, just for example, was a lousy stage fighter. He had this big roundhouse right that took forever to land. Hey, bad guy! Move out of the way! Duck and land a couple uppercuts before that punch completes its orbit!) Jock Mahoney as "The Range Rider" was hands-down the greatest of the syndicated cowboys. Simply mounting and dismounting were done with gymnastic flourish - even holstering his gun. No runaway stage went unboarded. No picket fence went unhurdled. No stick of furniture in a brawl went unsmashed. No monolithic boulder went unjumped up on or down from. These shows were the bridge between the astonishing physicality of the silent movie comedians and the flying fists of the chop-saki masters. By the late '50s, oaters dominated network primetime. They strove to stand out from each other by issuing odd weaponry, or creating weird hybrids: the urbane western, the spy western, the jazz western. (Nobody thought to bring back the singing cowboy.) "Money, Women and Guns" feels a lot like a pilot for a TV series. The story plays out episodically as our hero tracks down suspects in the murder of a rich old prospector. The suspects are also the beneficiaries of his will. We learn how the suspects were associated with the dead man. (Sort of a sagebrush "Citizen Kane".) Mahoney plays "Silver" Ward Hogan, a self-described "detective", not a bounty hunter or territorial marshal. Indeed, Hogan owes as much to Joe Friday as the Lone Ranger. The story is carried by the mystery. It also has some of the quality of "Law & Order" in that the first character suspected is never the murderer-unless, of course, the investigation circles back to him. I'm not saying it does or doesn't.

1958's "Money, Women and Guns" was a somewhat modest color B-Western from Universal, where Jock Mahoney was coming off his one science fiction title, "The Land Unknown." Elderly prospector Ben Merriweather (Edwin Jerome) is bushwhacked by a trio of masked marauders, two of which are killed in a brief shootout. In his final moments, the dying man writes out his last will and testament, leaving his wealth to a half dozen beneficiaries, and it's up to Mahoney's frontier detective 'Silver' Ward Hogan to track each one down. One is played by William Campbell, an ex-con struggling to go straight alongside young wife Judi Meredith (both worked for Roger Corman in 1966, Campbell in "Track of the Vampire" and Meredith in "Planet of Blood"). The youngest is David Kingman (Tim Hovey), a little boy whose only contact with Merriweather was a conversation about Santa Claus; his widowed mother (Kim Hunter) takes a shine to the wandering loner that David worships. One self contained vignette teams James Gleason's Henry Devers with Lon Chaney's Art Birdwell; Devers was Merriweather's former prospecting partner, who sends his poker playing partner Birdwell into town to cash his $50,000 beneficiary check. Jeffrey Stone followed up with "The Thing That Couldn't Die," while Phillip Terry did "The Leech Woman" (Tom Drake worked with Chaney in 1956's "The Cyclops" and 1966's "House of the Black Death"). As for Chaney, this innocuous little Western marked his final credit for Universal, the studio that cast him adrift following 1945's "House of Dracula," calling him back on only four occasions, the first three being 1948's "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," 1951's "Flame of Araby," and 1952's "The Black Castle" (he previously worked for director Richard H. Bartlett in 1955's "The Silver Star," for Lippert Pictures).