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Massacre à Furnace Creek

Original title: Fury at Furnace Creek
  • 1948
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
588
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Massacre à Furnace Creek (1948)
Classical WesternDramaWestern

Two sons of a general try to prove that he did not give an order that resulted in the Indian massacre of a wagon train and army fort.Two sons of a general try to prove that he did not give an order that resulted in the Indian massacre of a wagon train and army fort.Two sons of a general try to prove that he did not give an order that resulted in the Indian massacre of a wagon train and army fort.

  • Director
    • H. Bruce Humberstone
  • Writers
    • Charles G. Booth
    • David Garth
    • Winston Miller
  • Stars
    • Victor Mature
    • Coleen Gray
    • Glenn Langan
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    588
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • H. Bruce Humberstone
    • Writers
      • Charles G. Booth
      • David Garth
      • Winston Miller
    • Stars
      • Victor Mature
      • Coleen Gray
      • Glenn Langan
    • 17User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Victor Mature
    Victor Mature
    • Cash Blackwell…
    Coleen Gray
    Coleen Gray
    • Molly Baxter
    Glenn Langan
    Glenn Langan
    • Rufe Blackwell…
    Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner
    • Captain Walsh
    Albert Dekker
    Albert Dekker
    • Edward Leverett
    Fred Clark
    Fred Clark
    • Bird
    Charles Kemper
    Charles Kemper
    • Peaceful Jones
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • General Fletcher Blackwell
    George Cleveland
    George Cleveland
    • Judge
    Roy Roberts
    Roy Roberts
    • Al Shanks
    Willard Robertson
    Willard Robertson
    • General Leads
    Griff Barnett
    Griff Barnett
    • Appleby
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Leverett Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Bacon
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    George Bell
    George Bell
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    John Bose
    John Bose
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Rudy Bowman
    Rudy Bowman
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Chet Brandenburg
    Chet Brandenburg
    • Trial Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • H. Bruce Humberstone
    • Writers
      • Charles G. Booth
      • David Garth
      • Winston Miller
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    8planktonrules

    Restoring the family's honor.

    At the beginning of the film, Captain Walsh (Reginald Gardiner) announces to a group of folks on a wagon train that he and his cavalry were ordered back to their fort by General Blackwell. These people beg the cavalry to stay, as there are hostile Indians in the region...but he leaves. Not surprisingly, the settlers are soon massacred. The problem is that the General insists he never ordered the Captain back to the fort...and the Captain insists that he did. At a court martial to decide the case, General Blackwell drops dead on the witness stand and no one is able to prove anything...and the General dies with a stain on his record.

    After his father's death, Captain Blackwell (Glenn Langan) goes off looking for proof that his father was not responsible for the settlers' deaths. At the same time, unbeknownst to him, his ne'er do well brother, Cash (Victor Mature) is also investigating under cover. Considering Cash is a professional gambler and an embarrassment to the family, he can poke around much better than his brother and soon infiltrates a gang who appear responsible for the massacre...and their toady, Captain Walsh. What's next? See the film.

    This is a very good western in many ways. The biggest plus is the plot. About 95% of all westerns have three basic plots....but this one is different. The other big plus is Victor Mature, an A-list actor, starring in the film. Often in the 1950s, Fox and the other studios would usually use B-listers (or C-listers) for westerns and the A-list ones for the prestige pictures. Here, however, you get Mature as well as a pretty good villain (Albert Dekker). All in all, very good...nearly earning a 9.
    8oldblackandwhite

    Forgotten 'Forties Western Stylish And Entertaining

    Fury At Furnace Creek is a richly textured Western from 1948 starring charming second-tier leads Victor Mature and Coleen Gray. The mid to late 1940's, the Golden Era of Hollywood movies, produced such Western Classics as Red River (1948), My Darling Clementine (1946), and San Antonio (1945) (see my review). While not in a league with those blockbusters, this picture reaps the benefits of a big studio industry that was at the absolute peak of movie-making artistry. Though a medium budget picture, it gets the same glossy production values as any top-dollar 20th Century Fox number.

    Mature and second lead Glenn Langan play long-estranged brothers uneasily reunited in a effort to clear their late Army General father of charges he caused an Indian massacre. Ms. Gray, as a pretty, but spunky diner waitress whose enlisted man father died in the massacre, makes a lovely romantic interest for the appealingly laid-back Mature. Formidable villainy is provided by Albert Dekker as a suave crime boss with henchmen Roy Roberts, Fred Clark, and the ever sinister Charles Stevens. Stevens, who claimed to be the grandson of Geronimo, was an asset to any Western. With his beady eyes, his weathered ferret-like face, and his wiry, stooped physique, he seemed the quintessential Western villain. Reginald Gardiner plays a pivotal supporting role as an alcoholic retired Army captain possibly involved in a conspiracy to frame the General.

    Though director Bruce Humberstone directed only two other Westerns, he nevertheless shows a nice touch for the genre here, getting fine performances out of a diverse cast and brilliantly setting up the scenes for some dazzling cinematography. He and film editor Robert L. Simpson move along the critically acclaimed Charles Booth/David Garth story with silky smooth scene transitions and nary a wasted camera shot in a lean 88-minute running time. The colorful score, credited in the movie's opening graphics to Alfred Newman, not David Raksin as IMDb indicates, consists mostly of pervasive period honky-tonk music but works quiet effectively. Sets are lavishly detailed and costumes are colorful and authentic looking. All of which along with intelligent, colorful dialog, and Harry Jackson's stylish cinematography creates a rich, layered, ambiance. The style of Jackson's atmospheric cinematography, abounding with night scenes and starkly shadowed, obliquely angled camera shots, shows the influence of the dark, Gothic crime melodrama, now known as film noir, which was all the rage of the late 1940's. Look for some some real knock-out camera work in this modest Western, particularly the following: 1) a lengthy sequence of panicked Garder stalked through, dark streets, boardwalks, and alleys by Stevens -- 2) a shot of Mature descending a stairway viewed between the silhouetted hats of the two villains watching him -- 3) in the final reel horseback chase a pose of villains galloping across the top of a rugged cliff while the two fleeing brothers ride parallel to them at the bottom of the cliff, all in the same frame. And surely the climatic shoot-out scene in the ruins of the old fort accompanied by whistling wind, tumbling tumbleweeds, and screeching gate hinges, has served endless inspiration for a later generation of Spaghetti Western directors.

    If you are a Western fan, or just a fan of classic movies, don't miss this one. Fury At Furnace Creek is a skillful blend of drama, intrigue, and action, exciting, atmospheric, and engaging from beginning to end. First-rate Western entertainment from Old Hollywood's Golden Years.
    7CinemaSerf

    Fury at Furnace Creek

    When a general gives an order to divert a military escort from a wagon train to the remote Fort Furnace Creek, the Apache leader "Little Dog" sees his chance to reduce everything to rubble... The horrified authorities proceed to court-martial the general, but he dies on the witness stand and it falls to his two, estranged, sons, to get to the bottom of this mystery. One, "Rufe" (Glenn Lankan) a soldier; the other "Cash" (Victor Mature) an astute gambler handy with his six-gun. The latter gets to the town where one of the chief witnesses against his father "Capt. Walsh" (Reginald Gardiner) has take refuge in the bottle. Clearly seeing he has something on his mind, "Cash" attempts to find out what. The arrival of the other brother, the murder of "Walsh" and a note that might clear things up all feature as the story comes to an head - appropriately, in the burnt out ruins of the fort. It's a solid, action-packed adventure that gives Mature a chance to be more than the usual swarthy, sandalled hero. Coleen Grey ("Molly") introduces the tiniest element of romance, but nothing to clutter the quickly-paced plot that amalgamates just about every theme from the genre. Some effort has been put into the production, and I quite enjoyed it.
    searchanddestroy-1

    A very unusual western

    Because it is a western built around an investigation, as a crime drama, a court drama. The main interest is for me Albert Dekker as a villainous character. For the rest, I repeat that this western is not like any other of this kind. This is for me one of the best movies from director Bruce Humberstone; he will repeat in western with TEN WANTED MEN for Columbia Pictures and starring Randolph Scott. But keep in mind that he was mostly specialized in comedies, light hearted dramas or musicals. A film noir though, I WAKE UP SCREAMING, also starring Vic Mature, was a little gem to pick up from Humberstone's filmography.
    6pmtelefon

    Worth a watch.

    The title "Fury at Furnace Creek" is a little bit of false advertising. There's not much fury in this movie. This movie is more of a detective story than a western. That's fine. I enjoyed the mystery. It just wasn't what I was expecting. "Fury at Furnace Creek" is a beautiful looking, well acted (mostly) movie. Even though I enjoyed "Fury at Furnace Creek", I can't see myself watching it again anytime soon.

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    • Trivia
      "The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 10, 1949 with Victor Mature, Charles Kemper and Reginald Gardiner reprising their film roles.
    • Goofs
      When Tex Cameron was driving the open buggy through the desert talking to Molly, the carriage seemed to be moving at about 40 miles an hour. Yet there was not even breeze of wind on their faces, indicating they were on a sound stage.
    • Connections
      Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Fury at Furnace Creek (1958)

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    • Release date
      • January 12, 1949 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fury at Furnace Creek
    • Filming locations
      • Kanab Movie Fort, Kanab, Utah, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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