Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film made by Embassy Pictures and Solar Productions, in association with and released by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Henry Hathaway with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer, from a story and screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on a character from Harold Robbins' 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Lucien Ballard. The movi... more

Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film made by Embassy Pictures and Solar Productions, in association with and released by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Henry Hathaway with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer, from a story and screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on a character from Harold Robbins' 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Lucien Ballard. The movie is a prequel to The Carpetbaggers. The film stars Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone, Janet Margolin, Pat Hingle, Howard Da Silva, Martin Landau and Paul Fix. A gang of outlaws led by Tom Fitch robs and brutally kills the white father and Indian mother of young Max Sand. The other two bandits are Bill Bowdre and Jesse Coe. They first torture Max's mother, who is shown naked to the waist, in front of her husband's pulp-battered face, with Coe running his knife across her back and saying: ... less