Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Seymour Friedman
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)

Bank thieves running from a posse hideout with an odd assortment of characters in the mountains. An elderly Englishman has retired there for his health with his pretty daughter. Their Indian helpers live nearby in a hut carved in the side of a hill. The legend of buried treasure keep them occupied with digging and searching for it. When the thieves here about it, they begin their own search. One of them falls in love with the girl, causing romantic tension with one of the Indians. Works best as a serial-inspired adventure story, but also mixes in elements of westerns, gangster dramas and romance. Burr is ridiculous as the heavy, especially when his much thinner stunt double fights for him.

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