Lone Pine Film Festival

This Year's Theme – The Thrill Of It All! – Captures The Experience Of Film Making For Many Lone Pine And Alabama Hills Fans. For Over 30 Years, The Guided, "On Location" Movie Site Tours, Have Been, And Continue To Be One Of The Most Exciting Options For Those Attending The Annual Film Festival Taking Our Audience To The Actual Locations Where Their Favorite Westerns Were Filmed.

In Addition, Filmmakers And Movie Stars Join Us For Screenings, Panels And Discussions Telling Us Tales From The Set And What It Was Like To Be In The Room Working With Iconic Legends. The Events Are Complemented By A Host Of Expert Guest Historians And Authors Who Share Stories, Many From Books They Have Written, About How And Why These Films Were Made. Many Times, These Cinematic War Stories Are Often As Thrilling As The Movies Themselves.

Schedule Of Events:

7:30am - Mystery Man (1944)/ United Artists 80th Anniversary (Filmed In Lone Pine) –  58 Min.

Directed By George Archainbaud With William Boyd, Andy Clyde And Jimmy Rogers

Hoppy, California And Jimmy Rogers Set Out To Stop A Gang Of Bank Robbers Led By A Man Pretending To Be A Respectable Citizen. Locations Include Lone Pine's Alabama Hills And A Climactic Scene Filmed In Part On The Iverson Ranch.

The Film Will Be Featured On A Tour During The Festival And Will Be Introduced By Tour Guide Mike Del Gaudio.

8:45am - The Tall T (1957)/ Warner Brothers (Filmed In Lone Pine) –  78 Min.
Directed By Budd Boetticher With Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'sullivan

We Are Presenting A 25th Anniversary  Screening Of A Very Unique Lone Pine Film Festival Double Feature Originally Presented In 1999 As A Tribute Honoring Festival Guest Budd Boetticher – Two Movies Filmed In The Alabama Hills, 41 Years Apart.

At 8:45 We Will Screen Boetticher's Own The Tall T, Starring Randolph Scott, Richard Boone And Maureen O'sullivan, Adapted By Burt Kennedy From Elmore Leonard's 1955 Short Story "The Captives." Scott Plays An Independent Former Ranch Foreman Who Is Kidnapped Along With An Heiress, Who Is Being Held For Ransom By Three Ruthless Outlaws.

10:00 Am  - The Prospector (1998) (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 28 Min.  Silent/B &W

Produced By Jeremy Arnold, Directed By Owen Renfroe, With Tim Dekay And Elisa Taylor

The Second Half Of The Double Feature Is The Amazing Silent Film Recreation The Prospector.  In 1998, Jeremy Arnold And Owen Refroe Created This Modern Silent Western As A Throwback To The Classic Early Films Of John Ford And Other Great Filmmakers.  The 27 Minute Short Tells The Tale Of A Lone Prospector Who Rescues A Woman Lost In The Desert And Ends Up Sacrificing Everything To Save Her.  The Plot Is Right Out Of A Late 1950s Randolph Scott Ranown Western And Has Many Nods To Budd Boetticher's Work.  It Was Filmed In The Alabama Hills, Olancha Sand Dunes And Cerro Gordo And Features An Original Silent Film Score By Robert Israel.

11:00am  - Rip Roarin' Buckaroo (1936)/Victory Pictures (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 51 Min

Directed By Robert F. Hill With Tom Tyler, Beth Marion, Forrest Taylor, John Elliott
Fighter Scotty Mcquade (Tyler) Loses A Fixed Champion Fight That Ends His Boxing Career. He Winds Up As A Ranch Hand For A Colonel Hayden (Elliott) Who Also Happens To Have A Pretty Daughter (Marion) To Whom He Is Attracted.  Mcquade Subsequently Learns That His New Boss Is About To Be Swindled Out Of His Ranch In A Rigged Horse Race By The Same Crooked Fight Promoter (Taylor) Who Fixed The Boxing Match, And Does His Best To Save The Ranch And Get The Girl In The End.

Pre-Screening, Henry C. Parke Will Host A Q&A About The Final Years Of Tom Tyler's Life With Special Guests Sandra Slepski, Tyler's Niece.

12:30pm  - The Back Trail (1924) /Universal Pictures (Filmed In Lone Pine)  100th Anniversary – 47 Min.Silent/B & W

"This Film Will Be Introduced By Hoxie Aficionado Greg Parker."
Directed By George Marshall With Jack Hoxie, Al Hoxie, Eugenia Gilbert

Cowboy Jeff Prouty (J Hoxie) Having Returned From War With Amnesia Is Being Tricked By Swindlers By Making Him Believe He Is A Wanted Criminal.  The Swindlers, Wanting To Take Over Control Of The Family Ranch Using Blackmail, Manipulate Him Into Contesting His Late Father's Will Who Left Everything To An Adopted Daughter (Gilbert).  But He Is Shadowed By A Nameless Tramp (A Hoxie) Who Was In The War, Too, And Helps Him Regain His Memory In Time To Save The Estate.

2:00pm   The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)/Warner Brothers (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 115 Min.

Directed By Michael Curtiz With Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, David Niven, C. Henry Gordon

The Film's Screenplay Is Very Loosely Based On The Famous Charge Of The Light Brigade That Occurred During The Crimean War (1853–56). It Begins In 1854, As Captain Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) And His Brother, Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles), Are Stationed In India, With The 27th Lancers Of The British Army, During The Period Of East India Company Dominance Over The Indian Subcontinent. Perry Has Secretly Betrayed Geoffrey By Stealing The Love Of His Fiancée Elsa (Olivia De Havilland).

7:15pm   - Welcome /Intro Guests With Mc , Larry Maurice
7:30pm  - Rocky Mountain (1950) Warner Brothers –  86 Min.

Prior To The Screening, Rob Word Will Host A Discussion With Special Guest, Rory Flynn, Errol Flynn's Daughter And Author Of The Book The Baron Of Mulholland: A Daughter Remembers Errol Flynn.
Directed By William Keighly With Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore

During The American Civil War A Confederate Regiment Led By Capt. Lafe Barstow (Flynn) Is Out West, Attempting A Last, Desperate Effort To Turn The Tide Of The War By Recruiting A Guerilla Warfare Leader And His 500 Men To Raid California On Behalf Of The Confederacy.  While Dodging The Union Army They Come Across A Stagecoach Carrying Johanna Carter (Wymore) Being Attacked By Natives.  Rescuing Her And The Driver, Their Only Hope For Survival From Repeated Attacks Is To Team Up With Pursuing Union Troops.

Rocky Mountain Is Equally Harsh, Brutal, Somber And At Times Sentimental, Resembling Nothing Less Than A John Ford Cavalry Film Starring Errol Flynn.  Filmink Magazine Called It "A Hidden Gem, One Of Flynn's Best Westerns."

The Stellar Supporting Cast Includes Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Dick Jones, Sheb Wooley And Slim Pickens, Excellent And Already A Powerful Screen Presence In His First Film Role.  Flynn And Co-Star Patrice Wymore Fell In Love On The Dusty, Sunbaked Set Of This Powerful Film.  She Would Become His Third And Final Wife.

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