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The King and Four Queens Released Dec 21, 1956 1h 26m Western Comedy Adventure Drama List Reviews 36% Audience Score 100+ Ratings The four McDade brothers stage a successful heist -- except that ...
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- Raoul Walsh
- Western, Comedy, Adventure, Drama
- Clark Gable
The King and Four Queens Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com. Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 10, 2013. Michael E. Grost Classic ...
- A Classic, Forgotten Gem Starring A Great Clark Gable
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The King and Four Queens is a delightful Clark Gable film from his more mature years. The 1956 film is smoothly directed by one of old Hollywood’s great action directors, Raoul Walsh, but isn’t a real Western. It also features a fine score by legendary composer Alex North. Clark Gable has fun as a gallant, smooth-talking con man that woos four wido...
The 1956 movie was shot in lush CinemaScope by Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch). I was blown away by the quality of this Blu-ray presentation by Olive Films, which has licensed the film from MGM’s vaults. The high-quality film transfer looks similar in pedigree to a number of other CinemaScope transfers struck by Fox on Blu-ray and it’s possible tha...
The included audio is a fine-sounding 2.0 DTS-HD MA soundtrack. The audio elements are in great shape as well, reproducing the original monaural mix made by the Westrex recording system. The score by composer Alex North is heard on the thin side, lacking that big, smooth quality from the best Hollywood scores of this era. Nevertheless, dialogue is ...
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The King and Four Queens: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols. Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Raoul Walsh
- 1956-12-21
The King and Four Queens. The King and Four Queens is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color western adventure comedy / mystery film starring Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker and filmed in CinemaScope. Directed by Raoul Walsh, the film is based on a story written by Margaret Fitts, who also wrote the screenplay along with Richard Alan Simmons. [2]
Jan 1, 2015 · The only film produced by Clark Gable's Gabco outfit is a whimsical Western, whose slow-burning battle of wits ends with a bit of a bang. Drifting into the no-horse town of Wagon Mound, Gable 's chancer discovers that gun-toting matriarch Jo Van Fleet and her four widowed daughters-in-law are sitting on a stash of stolen gold.
The 1950s: 85/100 1956 Ranked A very pleasant surprise. Directed by Raoul Walsh, The King and Four Queens follows as Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) rides into Wagon Mound. It is a town of legend, known as the home of the McDade family. The four brothers had committed a robbery years ago, storing their stolen gold in the town before all, possibly, dying in the escape attempt. There is one of the four ...
