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Garden of Evil (1954) was a Western - Romance Film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Charles Brackett and Saul Wurtzel.

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Garden of Evil (1954): Starring Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark

By 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 22, 2020 From 4 Star Films

It does feel like one of the grand old westerns we left behind in more recent years. It’s a big picture in the horizontal majesty of widescreen, Glorious Technicolor, backed by the only score Bernard Hermann would ever arrange for the West. There’s little doubt we are in for a spectacle ... Read full article


Garden of Evil (1954, Henry Hathaway)

on Dec 9, 2013 From The Stop Button

For a while it seems like the third act of Garden of Evil will make up for the rest of the film’s problems. Or at least give it somewhere to excel. Sadly, director Hathaway and screenwriter Frank Fention inexplicably tack on a terrible coda–tying into the title no less–and effectiv... Read full article


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Fiske: [Seeing Leah feeding sugar to her horse] Look, you see that? Before this is over, you'll be just like that horse, eatin' right out of her hand.
Hooker: Maybe it isn't the woman. Maybe it's the sugar.


Fiske: Whew! Isn't there some other way we could go back?
Leah Fuller: Not that I know of.
Fiske: [Sarcastically] Great! How'd you ever find this place?
Leah Fuller: With a map from an old priest in Sacramento. He warned us against it.
Fiske: What'd he come here for?
Leah Fuller: For God! A little better reason than ours, wasn't it?


Fiske: It's a good trick, and it'll work.
Leah Fuller: On who?
Leah Fuller: On me because I'm stayin' with you.
Leah Fuller: Why?
Fiske: [Chuckles] Because I'm a fool.
Leah Fuller: Not to me.
Fiske: [Hesitatingly] What am I to you?
Leah Fuller: Maybe it'll help if I tell you.
Fiske: It won't.
Leah Fuller: It's easy to say because you're nothing. You're nothing at all. Just nothing.


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This is the only Western for which Bernard Herrmann composed a score.
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Also directed by Henry Hathaway




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