Copper Canyon

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. ~ John Bush, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Subtitle: English
• Features:
  • • cc Full screen format
    • English subtitles
    • Dolby Digital: English Mono, French Mono

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  John Farrow

• Producer:

  Mel Epstein

• Screen Story:

  Richard English

• Screenwriter:

  Jonathan Latimer

• Cinematographer:

  Charles B. Lang

• Composer (Music Score):

  Daniele Amfitheatrof

• Songwriter:

  Jay Livingston

• Editor:

  Edna Warren

• Art Director:

  Franz Bachelin, Hans Dreier

• Set Designer:

  Sam Comer, Ross Dowd

• Costume Designer:

  Edith Head, Gile Steele

• Makeup:

  Wally Westmore, Hal Lierley, Carl Silvera

• First Assistant Director:

  Herbert Coleman

• Choreography:

  Josephine Earl

REVIEW:

• Hedy Lamarr appears in Copper Canyon beautifully decked out in Technicolor period costumes but what she is doing here is anyone's guess. Yes, there is quite a bit of talk about her being hired by a crooked smelting baron to drive away the competition but exactly how she's is supposed to do so is never really made clear. But the lady is indeed stunning and if her falling head over heels in love with Ray Milland at virtually first glance sounds equally equivocal, well, that's just par for the course. Mr. Milland, meanwhile, is just as enigmatic as his co-star: Is he or isn't he a former Confederate colonel on the run? After 80 or so minutes of mostly exposition, however, nobody will much care. Watch for Nina Mae McKinney, the seductress of King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929), in a silent bit as Lamarr's maid. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi