Savage Pampas | |
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Directed by | Hugo Fregonese |
Written by | Homero Manzi Ulises Petit de Murat John Melson Hugo Fregonese |
Produced by | Samuel Bronston Jaime Prades |
Starring | Robert Taylor Ron Randell Marc Lawrence Ty Hardin |
Cinematography | Manuel Berenguer |
Edited by | Juan Serra |
Music by | Waldo de los Ríos |
Production companies | Bronston International Producciones Jaime Prades |
Distributed by | Comet Pictures (US) |
Release date | 7 July 1966 |
Running time | 112 minutes |
Countries | Argentina Spain United States |
Language | English |
Savage Pampas is a 1966 western film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Robert Taylor, Ron Randell and Marc Lawrence.[1] The film was a co-production between Argentina, Spain and the United States, and was a remake of the 1945 Argentine film of the same title which Fregonese had co-directed.[2][3] The film's location shooting took place in Spain, a popular location for westerns during the era. The film's action is set in the Argentinian Pampas around the time of the Conquest of the Desert.
During the 1870s, a tough Captain of the Argentine Army doggedly battles a band of outlaws composed of a mixture of Indians and Argentine deserters.
In 1958 it was announced Stephen Barclay would produce 12 films in Argentina with Mendoza Films and Guaranteed Pictures. They were to include Savage Pampas which was to be produced and directed by Hugo Fregonese.[4] Pampas was based on a true story about an encounter between white settlers and Indians in 1830 Argentina.[5]
The film was not made for another decade.[6]