Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar. It tells the story of how the lure of gold corrupts a diverse group of people.
The film was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones. The story is very loosely based around the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings.
An old legend talks about a fortune in gold hidden...
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Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar. It tells the story of how the lure of gold corrupts a diverse group of people.
The film was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones. The story is very loosely based around the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings.
An old legend talks about a fortune in gold hidden in the 'Canyon del Oro', guarded by the Apache gods. A man named Adams found it, only to have the Indians capture and blind him and kill all his companions. Years later, Marshal MacKenna kills an old Indian shaman who tried to bushwhack him and comes into possession of a map that supposedly shows the way to the treasure. Though skeptical, he memorizes the directions before burning the map.
Meanwhile, notorious Mexican outlaw Colorado and his gang had been tracking the old man for two weeks to get the map, all while being chased by the U.S....
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