Mackenna's Gold

1969 128 min ★ 6.6 Adventure, Action, Western

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

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Cast

Gregory Peck

Marshal MacKenna

Omar Sharif

Colorado

Camilla Sparv

Inga Bergmann

Julie Newmar

Hesh-Ke

Telly Savalas

Sergeant Tibbs

Keenan Wynn

Sanchez

Ted Cassidy

Hachita

Lee J. Cobb

The Editor

Raymond Massey

The Preacher

Burgess Meredith

The Storekeeper

Details

Director

J. Lee Thompson

Screenplay

Carl Foreman

Tagline

"A Giant of a movie"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$7,000,000

Production

Highroad Productions, Columbia Pictures

Reviews

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John Chard

May 28, 2017

★ 3/10

How to succeed by failing big? Mackenna's Gold is directed by J. Lee Thompson and adapted for the screen by Carl Foreman from a novel of the same name written by Henry Wilson Allen (AKA: Heck Allen, Henry Allen & Will Henry!), which in turn is loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings. It stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy & Telly Savalas. It'...

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Wuchak

February 2, 2019

★ 7/10

***Entertaining, but comic booky 1969 Western with a superlative cast*** "MacKenna's Gold" (1969) deals with the insanity of ‘gold fever’ and builds-up a good amount of anticipation concerning the secret gold canyon. Does it exist or doesn’t it? Western expert Brian Garfield (author of "Death Wish") commented on "MacKenna's Gold" in his outstanding book "Western Films" thusly: "it hasn't a si...