Sundown (1941 film)

Sundown
Film poster
Directed by	Henry Hathaway
Produced by	Jack Moss Walter Wanger
Written by	Charles G. Booth Barré Lyndon
Starring	Gene Tierney Bruce Cabot
Music by	Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Dorothy Spencer
Production company	Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	October 16, 1941 (1941-10-16)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.2 million^[1]
Box office	$873,808^[1]

Sundown is a 1941 American war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Bruce Cabot and Gene Tierney.^[2]^[3] The film's adventure story, set against a World War II backdrop in British East Africa, was well received by critics, earning three Academy Award nominations but was not a box office success.

Cast

Gene Tierney as Zia
Bruce Cabot as William Crawford
George Sanders as Major A.L. Coombes
Harry Carey as Dewey
Joseph Calleia as Pallini
Reginald Gardiner as Lt. Roddy Turner
Carl Esmond as Jan Kuypens
Marc Lawrence as Abdi Hammud
Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Bishop Coombes
Gilbert Emery as Ashburton
Jeni Le Gon as Miriami
Emmett Smith as Kipsang
Dorothy Dandridge as Kipsang's Bride

Production

During production, several of the camels became dehydrated and drank too much water too quickly, causing them to become intoxicated. The camels had to be run in the heat until they regained their composure.^[4]

Reception

According to Variety the film earned rentals in the US of $1,050,000.^[5] The film earned a loss of $658,824.^[1]

Awards

Nominated

Academy Award^[6]^[7]

References

1 2 3 Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p441
↑ Variety film review; October 15, 1941, page 8.
↑ Harrison's Reports film review; October 25, 1941, page 171.
↑ Camels Drunk On Water - The Evening Independent - Aug 21, 1941
↑ "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58
↑ "The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
↑ "NY Times: Sundown". NY Times. Retrieved December 14, 2008.

External links

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Films produced by Walter Wanger

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The Cocoanuts (1929)
The Lady Lies (1929)
Applause (1929)
Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Tarnished Lady (1931)
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Another Language (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Private Worlds (1935)
Smart Girl (1935)
Every Night at Eight (1935)
Shanghai (1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
The Moon's Our Home (1936)
Her Master's Voice (1936)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
Fatal Lady (1936)
Palm Springs (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Spendthrift (1936)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
History Is Made At Night (1937)
Stand-In (1937)
52nd Street (1937)
Trade Winds (1938)
Blockade (1938)
Algiers (1938)
I Met My Love Again (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Winter Carnival (1939)
Eternally Yours (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Slightly Honorable (1940)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
Sundown (1941)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
Arabian Nights (1942)
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
Ladies Courageous (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Night in Paradise (1946)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
The Lost Moment (1947)
Tap Roots (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Reign of Terror (1949)
Tulsa (1949)
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
Battle Zone (1952)
Fort Vengeance (1953)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Navy Wife (1956)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Cleopatra (1963)

Films directed by Henry Hathaway

Heritage of the Desert (1932)
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
The Thundering Herd (1933)
Under the Tonto Rim (1933)
Sunset Pass (1933)
Man of the Forest (1933)
To the Last Man (1933)
Come on Marines! (1934)
The Witching Hour (1934)
The Last Round-Up (1934)
Now and Forever (1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
I Loved a Soldier (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Go West, Young Man (1936)
Souls at Sea (1937)
Spawn of the North (1938)
The Real Glory (1939)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Sundown (1941)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
China Girl (1942)
Home in Indiana (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Nob Hill (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Dark Corner (1946)
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
The Black Rose (1950)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
Rawhide (1951)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Niagara (1953)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Prince Valiant (1954)
Garden of Evil (1954)
The Racers (1955)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Legend of the Lost (1957)
From Hell to Texas (1958)
Woman Obsessed (1959)
Seven Thieves (1960)
North to Alaska (1960)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Circus World (1964)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Nevada Smith (1966)
The Last Safari (1967)
5 Card Stud (1968)
True Grit (1969)
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Shoot Out (1971)
Hangup (1974)

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