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France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for his freedom. The Union soldiers set out to find the gold. They take the outlaw with him. An Apache attack ensues. Afterward, the outlaw gets a pair of soldiers drunk and kills them. He then flees leaving the rest of the weaponless Yankees to die. Meanwhile the outlaw finds the gold and falls in love with the Yankee leader's girl. Back in the desert, the Yankees endure another attack. The remaining two manage to catch up with the outlaw and the girl. In the ensuing battle, the girl throws the outlaws' gun to the Union leader who shoots him dead. The gold is sent back north and the lovers ride off into happiness. ...Incident at Phantom Hill
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By T. Symonds
Format:DVD
Pegasus have released a few westerns recently and have upped their game in terms of print quality. A pre-release copy of this, a western I've not seen before, hit my door mat earlier this week and I have to say I was very impressed. As with the other recent Pegasus releases, there's not much in the way of extras but the print they have used is very good indeed and in the original aspect ratio (this time 2.35:1). It's nice and sharp, the colours are vibrant and the film looks great. Sound is 2.0 stereo. Recommended!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Spike Owen
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Format:DVD
Incident at Phantom Hill is directed by Earl Bellamy and jointly adapted to screenplay by Frank Nugent and Ken Pettus from a story by Harry Tatelman. It stars Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles, Claude Akins and Noah Beery Jr. A Techniscope/Technicolor production, music is by Hans J. Salter (Joseph Gershenson supervising) and cinematography is by William Margulies.
"From a forgotten page of history, this is the story of The Phantom Hill Incident, and the events that followed..."
It's a roll call of fine Western character actors, with the square jawed Fuller leading off on alpha male duties, behind him Akins (Comanche Station), Duryea (Winchester '73) and Noah Beery Jr (Decision At Sundown) lift the standard plot formula to better heights; further enhanced by the appearance of Denver Pyle (Fort Massacre) in a deliciously vile secondary villain role.
Plot is set at the end of the Civil War and finds Captain Martin (Fuller) accepting a covert mission to locate a gold shipment that was snatched from a Union party by a rebel Confederate gang led by Joe Barlow (Duryea). During the attack, Martin's brother was killed and this drives Martin forward on his mission. With Barlow offered a pardon to lead them to the gold, Martin, a small group of men, and a "Madame" (Lane) who has been sanctimoniously ushered out of Hays City, set off to the Staked Plains looking for the hidden gold. But this is area ceded to the Commanche and outlaws stalk the land looking for ill gotten gains. Enough problems there as it is, but with water running low and the group coming apart due to differences and Barlow's scheming, it will be a small miracle if anyone makes it out alive.... Read more ›
"From a forgotten page of history, this is the story of The Phantom Hill Incident, and the events that followed..."
It's a roll call of fine Western character actors, with the square jawed Fuller leading off on alpha male duties, behind him Akins (Comanche Station), Duryea (Winchester '73) and Noah Beery Jr (Decision At Sundown) lift the standard plot formula to better heights; further enhanced by the appearance of Denver Pyle (Fort Massacre) in a deliciously vile secondary villain role.
Plot is set at the end of the Civil War and finds Captain Martin (Fuller) accepting a covert mission to locate a gold shipment that was snatched from a Union party by a rebel Confederate gang led by Joe Barlow (Duryea). During the attack, Martin's brother was killed and this drives Martin forward on his mission. With Barlow offered a pardon to lead them to the gold, Martin, a small group of men, and a "Madame" (Lane) who has been sanctimoniously ushered out of Hays City, set off to the Staked Plains looking for the hidden gold. But this is area ceded to the Commanche and outlaws stalk the land looking for ill gotten gains. Enough problems there as it is, but with water running low and the group coming apart due to differences and Barlow's scheming, it will be a small miracle if anyone makes it out alive.... Read more ›
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By A. W. Wilson
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
One of the later westerns made as a supporting feature, this has been unavailable for years. In fact, I don't believe it has ever been issued on Video or DVD in the U/K. This Pegasus print is excellent, Good scope size and colour and sound just right. The Amazon price is good too (tho I note HMV are pricing it at £10!). The film itself is not a classic, but it has most of the required ingredients, delivered by a pro team, in good old fashioned style. What I personally like about it is the cast. I shouldn't really like Fuller and Lane, but I do, and what western fan doesn't like Akins, Beery, Pyle, Don Collier, and the wonderful Duryea (did he ever tire of playing the same role, even tho he was brilliant at it??). This is still really a glorified "B" but I can heartily recomend it to western fans. Good on you Pegasus. Let's have more Universal films in the same quality.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By F. R. Jasper
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
These producers of dvds have certainly improved in picture and sound quality. This particular one is a great old fashion wstern with Dan Dureya great as always. First class entertainment.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Incident at Phantom Hill" is a western that I had never heard of, let alone seen. Pegasus entertainment have again gone into the dust choked film archives to retrieve a forgotten western and try to breathe some new life into it. The film is not featured in Phil Hardy's weighty western tome "The Encyclopedia of Western Films", or even listed as one of the films directed by Earl Bellamy on Wikipedia. Bellamy did most of his work on TV, including some on the western series "Laramie" where he worked with Robert Fuller the star of this film. Fuller was certainly athletic enough, as he showed in one impressive stunt which he clearly needed no double for, but was a bit wooden in the acting department, so cue Dan Duryea to give him some heavyweight support. Duryea, who was one of Hollywoods finest in his day, remember "The Little Foxes", lends a hand to Fuller in the same way he did on a few occasions for a similarly wooden Audie Murphy in other westerns. Duryea simply reprises his psychotically jovial killer role that he seemed to be typecast in for a while. Clearly ageing and hamming it up, he still manages to steal the show.
The film has a reasonable script co written by Ken Pettus and experienced western veteran Frank Nugent, who famously worked with John Ford on such famous westerns as "Fort Apache", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and the magisterial "The Searchers". Not a bad CV at all! The script based on a story by Harry Tatelman, who also produced the film, seems to have as many twists as the dollar movies. It is set at the end of the Civil War, where a shipment of gold is stolen by confederate troops in North West Texas. The Union brother of Fuller is killed during the ambush.... Read more ›
The film has a reasonable script co written by Ken Pettus and experienced western veteran Frank Nugent, who famously worked with John Ford on such famous westerns as "Fort Apache", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and the magisterial "The Searchers". Not a bad CV at all! The script based on a story by Harry Tatelman, who also produced the film, seems to have as many twists as the dollar movies. It is set at the end of the Civil War, where a shipment of gold is stolen by confederate troops in North West Texas. The Union brother of Fuller is killed during the ambush.... Read more ›
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like robert fuller
there are better westerns made no to crazy on the story line will watch again to make sure nothing was missed
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This was obviously made to cash in on Robert Fuller's popularity. Unfortunately it is very predictable and very dull. Robert Fuller sleepwalks through this.
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