Incident at Phantom Hill
Incident at Phantom Hill | |
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Directed by | Earl Bellamy |
Produced by | Harry Tatelman |
Written by |
Frank S. Nugent Ken Pettus Harry Tatelman (story) |
Starring |
Robert Fuller Jocelyn Lane Dan Duryea |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Incident at Phantom Hill is a 1966 American western film produced by Harry Tatelman and directed by Earl Bellamy. It stars Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane and Dan Duryea.
The story involves a Union gold shipment is stolen and buried in the desert. Both Union and rebel forces struggle to find it while threatened by Apaches. A romance complicates the action.
Plot
At the end of the U.S. Civil War, some Southern rebels steal a Union shipment of gold and bury it in a cave outside of Phantom Hill, Texas. After they are captured by Union forces, their leader secretly makes a deal with his captors and reveals the gold's location in return for his release.
The Union soldiers renege on the deal and keep his as their capture as they set out to find the gold. They survive an ambush by Apaches. The rebel outlaw gets the two soldiers who are guarding him drunk, kills them, and escapes taking all the Union soldiers' weapons with him. He locates the gold and falls in love with the Union leader's girlfriend. Meanwhile the weaponless Union soldiers face Apaches again and only the Union leader and one other escape alive. The set off in pursuit of the rebel and set on him and the girl. She betrays the rebel by tossing his gun to her Union lovge, who shoots the rebel. The lovers are reunited and the Union soldiers return the gold to the government.
Cast
As appearing in order of screen credits (main roles identified):[1]
Actor | Role |
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Robert Fuller | Captain Matt Martin |
Jocelyn Lane | Memphis |
Dan Duryea | Joseph Henry 'Joe' Barlow |
Tom Simcox | Lt. Adam Long |
Linden Chiles | Dr. Hanneford |
Claude Akins | Otto Krausman |
Noah Beery Jr. | O'Rourke (as Noah Beery) |
Paul Fix | General Hood |
Denver Pyle | Hunter #1 |
William Phipps (actor) | Trader |
Don Collier | Sheriff Carter Drum |
Mickey Finn (actor) | Hunter #2 |
Notes
- ↑ "Incident at Phantom Hill (1966) Full credits", IMDb, retrieved: April 16, 2013