These Thousand Hills | |
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Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
Screenplay by | Alfred Hayes |
Based on | These Thousand Hills 1956 novel by A.B. Guthrie Jr. |
Produced by | David Weisbart |
Starring | Don Murray Richard Egan Lee Remick Patricia Owens Stuart Whitman |
Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
Edited by | Hugh S. Fowler |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,645,000[1] |
These Thousand Hills is a 1959 American Western film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Stuart Whitman and Patricia Owens. The screenplay was written by Alfred Hayes.[2] It is based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie Jr. Filming took place in Sierra de Órganos National Park in the town of Sombrerete, Mexico.
The plot involves a sheltered rancher brought up under the stern gaze of his Bible-thumping father.[3]