Nevada (1944)

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  • NEVADA

    DIRECTED BY EDWARD KILLY
    MUSIC BY PAUL SAWTELL/ROY WEBB
    RKO RADIO PICTURES



    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    ust as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 in yellowbacks and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.
    Written by Maurice VanAuken


    Cast
    Robert Mitchum ... Jim Lacy aka Nevada (as Bob Mitchum)
    Anne Jeffreys ... Julie Dexter
    Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Dusty
    Nancy Gates ... Hattie Ide
    Richard Martin ... Chito Rafferty
    Craig Reynolds ... Cash Burridge
    Harry Woods ... Joe Powell
    Edmund Glover ... Ed Nelson, Assayer
    Alan Ward ... Sheriff William H. Brewer
    Harry McKim ... Marvie Ide
    Larry Wheat ... Ben Ide
    Jack Overman ... Croupier Red Berry
    Emmett Lynn ... Pancake Comstock
    Ben Johnson ... Saloon Patron (uncredited)
    and many more...

    Directed
    Edward Killy


    Writing Credits
    Norman Houston ... (screenplay)
    Zane Grey ... (novel)


    Produced
    Sid Rogell ... executive producer
    Herman Schlom ... producer


    Music
    Paul Sawtell
    Roy Webb ... (uncredited)


    Cinematography
    Harry J. Wild


    Trivia
    The Comstock Lode was a major discovery of silver and gold ore, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, in the Virginia Range. The location is now located under Virginia City, Nevada. The discovery was made public in 1859.


    'Yellowbacks' were gold certificates issued by banks in place of gold coinage, and were so-called due to the yellow-orange colour of their backs. These were replaced by paper money later on - 'greenbacks'.


    Nevada was the first time, Richard Martin played Chito in a Western. Richard Martin had played the role of Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty before in the 1943 WW2 drama Bombardier. He would go on to play the role a total of 33 times. Twenty-nine of those times would be with Tim Holt. John Laurenz would also play Chito in two films.


    Robert Mitchum's first starring role.


    Goofs
    Anachronisms
    Julie Dexter is wearing a dress with a zipper up the back in her final scenes.


    The Comstock Lode was initially mined in the 1850s. The characters are wearing clothes and using weapons from much later in the nineteenth century.


    'Yellowbacks' were issued from 1882 to 1922. This film is set around the time of the discovery of the Comstock Lode in the 1850s.


    Filming Locations
    Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • Nevada is a 1944 western movie based on a Zane Grey novel and starring a 27-year-old Robert Mitchum,
    with Anne Jeffreys, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, and Richard Martin in supporting roles.


    The film was written by Norman Houston from Grey's popular novel and directed by Edward Killy.
    Mitchum is billed with "Introducing Bob Mitchum as Jim Lacy" at the film's beginning.
    although this was not Mitchum's first movie, it was his first lead role.

    Richard Martin also played sidekick "Chito Rafferty" in thirty other western movies
    (source: Internet Movie Database), most of which starred screen cowboy Tim Holt,
    who had joined the service during World War II when Nevada was produced.
    Martin played this same character set in different times, both contemporary and the Old West.


    This version is a remake of a 1927 movie starring Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, and William Powell.
    This is the only time when Cooper and Mitchum played the same role in different versions of a story.



    User Review


    Other than the first starring role of 'Bob Mitchum', it's a standard B-Western
    10 September 2009 | by planktonrules (Bradenton, Florida)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England