Advantages: Great action scenes and a very interesting story line... Disadvantages: Not many
This was a Super pana vision film released in 70mm wide screen, an action packed Western melodrama based on a folklore of the Ancient American Indians. MacKenna's Gold is a lavish film, and quite an entertaining one too. Shot in 1968, it boasts of some excellent color photography with wonderful panoramic visuals..
It had some of the biggest stars of those days like Gregory peck, Omar Sheriff ,Telly Savales, Eli Wallaich, Anthony Gale, Camilla Sparv among a host of othres...
The Film
MecKennas Gold is the story of a group of people looking for a legendary valley of Gold and how the lure of gold corrupts .The opening song 'Old Turkey Buzzard ' which recurs through the film was sung by José Feliciano and was composed by Quincy Jones with lyrics by Freddie Douglas.
The film opens with a narration by Victor Jory about an Apache legend ...
