MacKenna ‘s Gold ( Mackenna’s Gold ) is an American film directed by J. Lee Thompson , released in 1969 .
Synopsis
While patrolling in search of the Colorado gangster, Sheriff MacKenna misses being killed by a lonely old Indian. He died leaving him the map of a fabulous Apache treasure, known throughout the region but never discovered.
Technical sheet
- Title: MacKenna Gold
- Original title: Mackenna’s Gold
- Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
- Scenario: Carl Foreman and Heck Allen , based on Heck Allen’s eponymous novel (written under the pseudonym Will Henry), 1963
- Production: Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin
- Music: Quincy Jones (The song Mackenna’s Gold (Douglas F. – Q. Jones) is in the French BO adapted by Ralph Bernet and played by Johnny Hallyday under the title MacKenna Gold .
- Photography: Joseph MacDonald and Richard Moore (additional shots)
- Costumes: Norma Koch
- Editing: Bill Lenny
- Country of origin: United States
- Genre: Western
- Duration: 122 minutes
- Release date: March 18, 1969 (West Germany), March 21, 1969 (France), May 10, 1969 (United States)
Distribution
- Gregory Peck (VF: Jacques Berthier ) : MacKenna
- Omar Sharif (VF: Gérard Hernandez ) : Colorado
- Camilla Sparv (VF: Béatrice Delfe ) : Inga Bergmann
- Keenan Wynn (VF: Albert Medina ) : Sanchez
- Julie Newmar : Hesh-Ke
- Ted Cassidy : Hachita
- Telly Savalas (VF: Serge Sauvion ) : Sergeant Tibbs
- Lee J. Cobb (VF: Pierre Collet ) : The editor-in-chief
- Raymond Massey : The priest
- Burgess Meredith (VF: Serge Lhorca ) : The grocer
- Anthony Quayle (VF: Jean Berger ) : English
- Edward G. Robinson (VF: Louis Arbessier ) : Old Adams
- Eli Wallach (VF: Marcel Bozzuffi) : Ben Baker
- Eduardo Ciannelli (VF: Lucien Raimbourg ) : Prairie Dog
- Dick Peabody : Avifa
- Rudy Diaz (VF: Claude Bertrand ) : Besh
- Robert Phillips : Monkey
- Shelley Morrison : Squaw Pima
- J. Robert Porter : Young Englishman
- David Garfield : Companion of Old Adams
- Pepe Callahan : Laguna
- Madeleine Taylor Holmes : Old Apache woman
- Duke Hobbie : Lieutenant
- Victor Jory (VF: Denis Savignat ) : Voice of the narrator