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Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles.
It is located 33 miles northeast of Kanab by way of Highway 89, then 5 miles north on a dirt road. Farther north on the same dirt road, accessible by four-wheel drive (or walking), is the original Paria (Pah-re-ah) townsite (Paria means "muddy water" in the Paiute language).
Mackenna's Gold: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv. A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
But there’s one Mackenna’s Gold filming location that’s a long way away from all the others. The scene in which we see the wreckage of a raft plunging over an immense waterfall is actually stock footage of High Force Waterfall, which is located near Teesdale in England.
Mackenna's Gold: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv. A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
- (9.9K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1969-05-10
The movie Mackenna's Gold is loosely based on the Adams legend that the southwestern deserts of the USA, contain a hidden canyon guarded by the Apache gods and rich with gold. Three hundred years later, the Americans came. They heard about the legend but called it, "The Lost Adams".
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A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
