Main Cast: Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman
Release Year: 1950
Country: US
Run Time: 84 minutes
Plot
Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Review
Hedy Lamarr appears in Copper Canyon beautifully decked out in Technicolor period costumes but what she is doing here is anyone's guess. Yes, there is quite a bit of talk about her being hired by a crooked smelting baron to drive away the competition but exactly how she's is supposed to do so is never really made clear. But the lady is indeed stunning and if her falling head over heels in love with Ray Milland at virtually first glance sounds equally equivocal, well, that's just par for the course. Mr. Milland, meanwhile, is just as enigmatic as his co-star: Is he or isn't he a former Confederate colonel on the run? After 80 or so minutes of mostly exposition, however, nobody will much care. Watch for Nina Mae McKinney, the seductress of King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929), in a silent bit as Lamarr's maid. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Franz Bachelin - Art Director, Hans Dreier - Art Director, Josephine Earl - Choreography, Edith Head - Costume Designer, Gile Steele - Costume Designer, Herbert Coleman - First Assistant Director, John Farrow - Director, Edna Warren - Editor, Daniele Amfitheatrof - Composer (Music Score), Jay Livingston - Songwriter, Wally Westmore - Makeup, Hal Lierley - Makeup, Carl Silvera - Makeup, Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer, Mel Epstein - Producer, Sam Comer - Set Designer, Ross Dowd - Set Designer, Richard English - Screen Story, Jonathan Latimer - Screenwriter
