Desert Fury is a 1947 Paramount motion picture starring John Hodiak and Lizabeth Scott, with Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, and Mary Astor. See also: 1946 in film 1947 1948 in film 1940s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America The Best Years of Our Lives Duel in the Sun tie The Jolson Story, Forever Amber Unconquered Academy Awards Best Picture: Gentlemans Agreement - 20th Century-Fox Best... The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 1995. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Actor John Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1914. ... Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Scott (born Emma Matzo September 29, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ... Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 _ October 20, 1994) was an American film actor. ... Wendell Corey (March 20, 1914 - November 8, 1968) was an American film actor. ... Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was a US film actress. ...

This film noir drama, which was filmed in Technicolor, was directed by Lewis Allen. It was adapted for the screen by A. I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen from the novel Desert Town by Ramona Stewart. Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression-era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction. ... Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... Alternate use: Technicolor (physics) Technicolor is a three-strip color film process pioneered in the 1930s by the Technicolor Corporation, a company created by the husband-and-wife team of Herbert and Natalie Kalmus. ... Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986) is best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, under which he wrote the song Strange Fruit, famously performed by Billie Holiday. ... Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 - February 18, 1966) was a Hollywood film writer, producer, and director. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Fritzi Haller (played by Astor) is the tough owner of a saloon and casino in the small fictional mining town of Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter, Paula Haller (played by Scott), has just quit school and returned home at the same time as gangster Eddie Bendix (played by Hodiak), once involved with Fritzi, who left town under suspicion of murdering his wife. Saloon can mean: Any bar, especially in the American Wild West. ... The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey A casino is a building that accommodates gambling. ...

Paula falls for Bendix and they become involved. Paula's old boyfriend, and local lawman, Tom Hanson (played by Lancaster), along with Bendix's sidekick, Johnny Ryan (played by Corey), try to break up the relationship. When Fritzi finds out, she angrily tries to protect Paula and put a stop to her seeing Bendix.

Bendix's past catches up with him in an unexpected way when the car he is in, running from Hanson (who wants to rid the town of the likes of Bendix and Ryan), crashes through the railing as it is going onto the bridge and plunges down the embankment, killing him.

Scenes were shot on location in the small Ventura County, California, town of Piru, with the Piru Mansion used as the Haller home and the historic Piru bridge used as the locale of the car crash. Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ... Piru is a census-designated place located in Ventura County, California. ...

Desert Fury has fast and furious dialogue, dark secrets and outraged face slappings.

External links

• Desert Fury (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039311/) at the Internet Movie Database