The Shooting (1966)
June 2, 1966Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Warren Oates
Willett Gashade
Will Hutchins
Coley Boyard
Millie Perkins
Woman
Jack Nicholson
Billy Spear / Producer
Charles Eastman
Bearded Man
Guy El Tsosie
Indian
Brandon Carroll
Sheriff
B. J. Merholz
Leland Drum
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 2, 1966
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Budget$75,000
Filming LocationsUtah, United States of America
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Wiki.
The Shooting is a 1966 American Western film directed by Monte Hellman, with a screenplay by Carole Eastman (using the pseudonym Adrien Joyce). It stars Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, Will Hutchins, and Jack Nicholson, and was produced by Nicholson and Hellman. The story is about two men who are hired by a mysterious woman to accompany her to a town located many miles across the desert. During their journey, they are closely tracked by a black-clad gunslinger, who seems intent on killing all of them.
The film was shot in 1965 in the Utah desert, back-to-back with Hellman's similar Western Ride in the Whirlwind, which also starred Nicholson and Perkins. Both films were shown at several international film festivals, but the U.S. distribution rights were not purchased until 1968, by the Walter Reade Organization. No other domestic distributor had expressed any interest in the films. Walter Reade decided to bypass a theatrical release, and the two titles were sold directly to television.