Isolation works best when the endangered characters are few in number and are slowly killed off, one by one, leaving their dwindling company of companions to face greater odds against success. Of course, the very nature of westerns demands that the cavalry come to the rescue in the nick of time.
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Most often, the western takes full advantage of the situation, particularly when pioneers circle their wagons against an Indian attack or a fort is surrounded and becomes an island of safety. The idea of stranding people in an isolated location where their lives are in danger and there is no escape and no hope of rescue is about as old as the movies. He died at the much too early age of 65 in 1987.
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Egan may be the best known actor in the cast, appearing in 68 films and tv series between 19, including the elder brother of Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender. Neal Garvan is coerced into attending to Bart’s wounds because Hurley is holding the doctor’s wife hostage. Forever typed as a rustic with a broad sense of humor and even broader country accent, the actor appeared as Davy Crockett in The Last Command (1955) and blew the minds of every kid who had a poster of Fess Parker taped to his bedroom wall. He semi-retired in the 1970’s then ran charter boats until his death in 2005.Īrthur Hunnicutt is the only resident of the deserted town. Andes had a long career as the second lead in dozens of films and tv shows in the 1950’s, with his handsome face and viral physique, posing for “beefcake” photos in his younger days. Keith Andes is a newspaper reporter on the trail of Sam and Bart. Her second husband was Paul Douglas, which whom she had her only child, a son. She had a long career, but was never able to scratch her way out of b-films. Sterling was a striking figure in the 1950’s, sexy and tough as nails and always entertaining. Jan Sterling portrays Dorothy Vail, a dance hall girl and (unspoken) prostitute. Curiously, the incident didn’t damage Kelly’s career and he went on to portray a series of tough guy/gangster roles on screen and Broadway until suffering a heart attack in 1953, the year he made Split Second. In 1927, the actor was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of the alcoholic and violent Ray Raymond over Kelly’s affections toward his wife. Kelly had grown up on the tough streets of Brooklyn and was on Broadway at the age of 8 to support his family after the death of his father. Sam’s closest companion and escapee, Bart Moore, is played by Paul Kelly, one of Hollywood’s true life tough guys.
He died of heart failure in Beverly Hills in 1994 Despite his long career, McNally fell into that category where audiences remembered the face but could never recall the name. He scored a big hit as Locky McCormick who rapes the mute Johnny Belinda (1948) and thereafter was seldom out of work on film and in tv.
McNally gave up a career as a practicing attorney to take up acting in the late 1930’s, specializing in tough guy and villain roles. Stephen McNally heads the cast as killer convict, Sam Hurley. His initial effort, Split Second, is as dry and bleakly uncompromising as the desert town in which most of the action takes place. He rose to fame as a boyish crooner in Warner Bros musicals of the 1930‘s until advancing age caught up with him, switched to tough noir crime thrillers in the mid 1940’s and finally directing in the 1950’s. Dick Powel l had one of the most remarkable careers in Hollywood history. Two men running across the desert heralds the dramatic opening. Crisp crime thriller in which two escaped killers hold a group of people hostage in an abandoned mining town which is at the center of a nuclear test scheduled for the following morning.
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