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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner, Albert Dekker
Directed By: H. Bruce Humberstone
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543436898
Format: Color
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-05-22
Running Time: 88
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
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Summary: Poor mans Clementine
Comment: How can Victure Mature work in this movie or any movie? I think a great deal of him in alot of them ! Allways suprised at how much I like him and his movies. This one definetly works! I shoulden't have been so suprised!
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Summary: Good Fox Studio Western
Comment: FURY AT FURNACE CREEK is a quality Western, with all sorts of engrossing plot twists, and fine, sharp B&W photography. Victor Mature, an actor I've not always warmed to, turns in a solid performance, seeking justice for his defamed father. Like other 20th C./Fox products of the period, production values are high, and the result is an enjoyable oater that any old cowpoke-lover will like. Recommended.
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Summary: Unexpected little gem....
Comment: I had never heard of this Western before and bought it simply because I liked the idea of the story and because I like any type of movie from the late 40's. It was a little gem of a film with great production values
and an aimiable leading man in the shape of Victor Mature.It was nicely photographed in desert locations and the almost silent shoot-out at the end was excellent.Being a long time Western fan I have no hesitation in recommending this as a good example of the genre and it will certainly reward not omly one but repeated viewing,seeing different things to enjoy each time, particularly Mature and Albert Dekker.
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Summary: Mature
Comment: Average, fairly low budget western. Trite story line. Saved by a young and dynamic Victor Mature. Easy to see why he went on to bigger things. Good for the western movie buff.
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Summary: Mature Western
Comment: Don't be put off with the misnomer of the title to this little known 1948 picture. "Fury At Furnace Creek" is a neat little atmospheric western with a literal screenplay by Charles Booth from a story by David Garth. Crisply directed by Bruce Humberstone it is nicely photographed in Monochrome by Harry Jackson and well played by a good cast. In the lead is Victor Mature playing a man who, with his estranged brother (Glenn Langan), sets out to clear the name of his army Colonel father (Robert Warwick) who dies suddenly during his military trial after being falsely accused of leaving the Fort at Furnace Creek undefended against marauding Apaches resulting in the massacre of its occupants.
Humberstone directs in commanding fashion and the story is fully fleshed out with an array of interesting characters the likes of leering baddie Albert Dekker, the englified Reginald Gardiner and fresh from "Captain From Castile" Jay Silverheels as the Apache chief Little Dog and Roy Roberts as Dekker's equally crooked associate. In the female lead is Colleen Grey who rejoins Mature after "Kiss Of Death" the year before and there's an amusing turn by Charles Kemper as the town drunk who, because the town has no jail, is chained and shackled to an enormous tree trunk which he must carry on his shoulder if he wants to move around. The only problem I had with the film is the corny music score! I'm surprised at composer David Raksin who cheapens the movie somewhat with his awful score which is nothing more than the orchestra playing the cowboy ditty
"Don't Bury Me On The Lone Prairie".There is no dramatic underscoring whatsoever which I find to be apathetic and doctrinaire.
Nevertheless, it's Mature's movie and as usual he gives a likable and workmanlike performance. An actor who never had his fair dues from critics Mature was one of the most underrated actors in the business. He never won any major awards or plaudits for his work and even said of himself "I'm no actor and I have a scrapbook at home full of reviews to prove it". Yet he was more than convincing in such movies as "Kiss Of Death", "Cry Of The City", "My Darling Clementine" (as Doc Holliday) and as the Greek slave Demetrius in "The Robe" and its sequel "Demetrius & The Gladiators". And let's not forget his iconic portrayal of Samson when - at the behest of Cecil B.DeMille - he was loaned to Paramount for the DeMille epic production of "Samson & Delilah". DeMille insisted that Mature was the only man in pictures that would look the part.
He turns in the same sure-footed and admirable sort of performance here in "Fury At Furnace Creek" which will not be out of place in your western collection. It is a good looking DVD too with nice sharp Black & White images.
Extras include a Poster gallery and a behind the scenes gallery and there's a good trailer somewhat marred by the excessive hard sell of the movie by none other than Gregory Peck.
Classic line from "Fury At Furnace Creek" when Mature asks Charles Kemper - who is laden down with that tree trunk on his shoulder - "do you do this often?" to which Kemper chuckles in response "no, only on Sundays".
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