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  - Arizona Ranger (1948)/Rko Pictures  (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 64 Min.
Directed By John Rawlins With Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Paul Hurst

Bob Morgan (Tim Holt) Returns From A Tour Of Duty In Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders And Becomes An Arizona Ranger, Infuriating His Father (Jack Holt) Who Intended He Rejoin The Family Ranch After His Military Service.  The Morgan Ranch Is Being Victimizedby Rustlers Led By Outlaw Quirt Butler (Steve Brodie).  Morgan Stops His Father From Lynching Butler And Arrests The Rustler.  Butler Subsequently Escapes From Jail And Morgan Is Relieved Of His Duty As A Ranger.  He Sets Out On His Own To Recapture Butler And The Gang.  Many Consider This Rare Film The Finest Of Tim Holt's Starring Westerns, In Every Way An A Western Disguised As A B, With Complex Characters And Relationships, Powerful Performances From Tim And Jack Holt, And Especially Paul Hurst, As Jack Holt's Best Friend And Ranch Foreman.  Contains Breathtaking Views Of The Alabama Hills And Lone Pine's Legendary "Tim Holt Cabin."

9:00am  - Cattle Empire (1958)/20th Century Fox  (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 83 Min.
Directed By Charles Marquis Warren With Joel Mccrea, Don Haggety, Phyllis Coates, Gloria Talbott

After Serving Five Years In Prison Former Trail Boss John Cord (Mccrea)  Returns To The Town He And His Men Were Accused Of Destroying In A Drunken Melee.  His Return Gets Him Drug Through The Streets And Almost Killed.  Against The Wishes Of The Townsfolk, He Is Offered His Old Trail Boss Job By Leading Citizen (And His Former Boss) Ralph Hamilton (Haggerty), Who Also Was Blinded In The Violence. Hamilton Needs Him To Drive The Town's Large Cattle Herd To Fort Clemson.  After First Refusing, Cord Reluctantly Accepts The Job.  Not Only Does He Have To Deal With The Hostile Townsfolk, But A Rival Cattle Outfit Who Is Making The Same Trek.

Charles Marquis Warren Later Created The Rawhide Tv Series And Elements Of That Series Are Prevalent In This Film, Including The Casting Of Rawhide Cook Paul Brinegar.  Scenes For Cattle Empire Were Shot In The Lone Pine Area, Thousand Oaks (Doubling For Lone Pine And Arizona) And Arizona, Courtesy Of Stock Footage From The Fox Cinemascope Clark Gable Western Epic The Tall Men.

11:00am  - Trail Of Robin Hood (1950)/Republic Pictures  – 67 Min.
We Are Proud To Present Paramount's Restoration Of Roy Rogers' Final Trucolor Feature… And Roy's Only Christmas Movie!

Directed By William Witney With Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Jack Holt

Retired Cowboy Star Jack Holt Runs A Christmas Tree Farm And Sells At Cost So Trees Are Affordable To All Families.  Commercial High-Priced Tree Magnate J. Corwin Aldridge (Emory Parnell), Is Out To Corner The Market And Buy Up All Of His Competition Including Holt's Crop.  But When Aldridge's Criminal Crew Starts Sabotaging – And Then Rustling – Holt's Trees, Roy Rogers, Trigger And Bullet Join The Fracas.  Filmed In Big Bear, Ca, Trail Of Robin Hood Is An Absolute Delight, With Wonderful Songs, Including "Every Day Is Christmas In The West," And The Cast Includes An Army Of Republic Pictures Western Stars Who Show Up In The Last Reel To Help Roy Defeat The Christmas Tree Rustlers, Including Rocky Lane, Monte Hale And Rex Allen. 50 Westerns Of The 50s Said Of It: "Trail Of Robin Hood Is Wonderful, And It's A Shame It's Not Better Known As A Christmas Movie."

2:00pm - Django Unchained (2012)/ Columbia Pictures (Filmed In Lone Pine) – 165 Min.
Directed By Quentin Tarantino With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio

In The Antebellum South, Freed Slave Django (Foxx) And Bounty Hunter Dentist King Schultz (Waltz) Set Out To Free Django's Wife Who Is Enslaved By The Evil Calvin Candie (Dicaprio), A Notorious Racist Plantation Owner Schultz Is Also Seeking Out For Other Reasons.

7:15pm - Welcome /Intro Guests With Mc , Larry Maurice
7:30pm - Blazing Saddles (1974)/Warner Brothers  50th Anniversary  – 93 Min.
A Conversation Hosted By Rob Word With  Burton Gilliam.
Directed By Mel Brooks With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks And Burton Gilliam.

Out West, The Little Town Of Rock Ridge Stands In The Way Of A Proposed Railway.  In A Dastardly Land Grab Scheme, Corrupt Businessman, Hedley Lemarr (Korman), Sends In His Brutal Henchmen To Make The Town Unlivable, Hoping For A Mass  Exodus Of Residents.  His Plan Ultimately Backfires, As Bart (Little) Is Appointed Sheriff, Allowing Him And His Deputy, A Washed-Up Gunslinger Named The Waco Kid (Wilder), To Help The Townsfolk Take A Stand.

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