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Desert Fury
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 Desert Fury movie poster |
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| Directed by | Lewis Allen |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | A. I. Bezzerides Robert Rossen Ramona Stewart novel Desert Town |
| Starring | John Hodiak Lizabeth Scott Burt Lancaster Wendell Corey Mary Astor |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Edward Cronjager Charles Lang |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 15 August 1947 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | English |
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Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount Pictures film noir drama motion picture starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey.
Directed by Lewis Allen, the story was adapted for the screen by A.I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen, based on the novel Desert Town by Ramona Stewart. It was produced by Hal Wallis. Music was by Miklós Rózsa, and cinematography in Technicolor by Charles Lang.
Desert Fury has fast and furious dialogue, dark secrets and outraged face slappings.
Fritzi Haller (Astor) is the tough owner of a saloon and casino in the small fictional mining town of Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter, Paula Haller (Scott), has just quit school and returned home at the same time that gangster Eddie Bendix (Hodiak) has returned. He was once involved with Fritzi, but left town under suspicion of murdering his wife.
Paula falls for Bendix and they become involved. Paula's old boyfriend, and local lawman, Tom Hanson (Lancaster), along with Bendix's sidekick, Johnny Ryan (Corey), try to break up the relationship. When Fritzi finds out, she angrily tries to protect Paula and put a stop to her seeing Bendix.
Bendix's past catches up with him in an unexpected way when the car he is in, running from Hanson (who wants to rid the town of the likes of Bendix and Ryan), crashes through the railing as it is going onto the bridge and plunges down the embankment, killing him.
- Scenes were shot on location in the small Ventura County, California, town of Piru, with the northwest side of Center Street, at Main, used as the exterior of Fritzi's saloon and casino; the Piru Mansion was used as the Haller home and the historic Piru bridge was used as the locale of the car crash.
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