Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
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[Update: This is the filming of “Buffalo Bill,” starring Joel McCrea.] |
| [Update: Here’s the caption information on the back of the photo.] Our mystery camera crew has covered the camera with a heavy blanket … because of noise? … because of dust? It’s a mystery! … and here’s our mystery soundman … … our mystery cavalry soldiers … … a mystery cannon with a pyramid of cannonballs… … our mystery talent in a lot of fringe … … and our mystery guys standing around. |
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Joel McCrea in BUFFALO BILL?
Posted by: Mary mallory | January 17, 2011 at 08:16 AM
"They Died With Their Boots On," (1941) with Errol Flynn in fringe.
Posted by: Gregory Moore | January 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM
We don't think that is a blanket, it's more like a quilt -- it appears to be a blimped camera. The idea is to keep the sound of the camera grinding off of the movie sound track. Looks suspiciously like a John Ford oater but the actors are hard to figure out. John Carradine in the goatee? Edgar Buchanan as the guy with two stripes on his sleeve?
Posted by: Fibber McGee | January 17, 2011 at 10:35 AM
This isn't from Buffalo Bill (1944) with Joel McCrea staring as Buffalo Bill, is it?
Posted by: la peregrina | January 17, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Looks like the old movie fort up in Kanab or Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, where John Ford did a lot of shooting. One of the cavalry enlisted #6, looks like Jack Pennick. My best guess is that it is one of the James Warner Bellah stories, Ft. Apache, Rio Bravo or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Posted by: Steve Moshlak | January 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Larry- Change that from Rio Bravo to Rio Grande! Thanks!
Posted by: Steven Moshlak | January 17, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Joel McCrea in Buffalo Bill. Filmed in and around Kanab, Utah. That's the fort that was built there, think they called it Ft. Kanab for years. Used in innumerable films, including Sergeants 3. The film crews all used to stay at Parry's Lodge in Kanab. The Kanab movie ranch there became a great animal shelter called 'Best Friends' about 20 years ago.
Posted by: RJ | January 17, 2011 at 02:59 PM
Getting a late start today, looks like Joel McCrea from BUFFALO BILL 1944L
Posted by: MIKE HAWKS | January 17, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Hah! I told Molly that was Edgar Buchanan in that oater. "Well, what vintage western was he NOT in?" she replied.
Posted by: Fibber McGee | January 18, 2011 at 01:57 PM