Fort Ti
1953 film by William Castle
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::summary 1953 film by William Castle ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Fort Ti |
| image | Fort Ti 1953 poster.jpg |
| caption | Theatrical release poster |
| director | William Castle |
| producer | Sam Katzman |
| screenplay | Robert E. Kent |
| story | Robert E. Kent |
| starring | George Montgomery |
| Joan Vohs | |
| cinematography | Lester H. White, Lothrop B. Worth |
| editing | William A. Lyon |
| color_process | Technicolor |
| studio | Columbia Pictures |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures |
| released | |
| runtime | 73 minutes |
| country | United States |
| language | English |
| gross | $2.6 million |
| :: |
| name = Fort Ti | image = Fort Ti 1953 poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = William Castle | producer = Sam Katzman | screenplay = Robert E. Kent | story = Robert E. Kent | starring = George Montgomery Joan Vohs | cinematography = Lester H. White, Lothrop B. Worth | editing = William A. Lyon | color_process = Technicolor | studio = Columbia Pictures | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = | runtime = 73 minutes | country = United States | language = English | gross = $2.6 million Fort Ti is a 1953 American 3-D Western film directed by William Castle, and starring George Montgomery and Joan Vohs. Written by Robert E. Kent, the film is the first Western to be released in 3-D and the first 3-D feature to be released in Technicolor by a major studio. Fort Ti was distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States.
The film is set in 1759 at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
Premise
As war is raging across 18th-century colonial America, a band of famed native fighters join British forces for an assault on a French stronghold.
Cast
- George Montgomery as Capt. Jedediah Horn
- Joan Vohs as Fortune Mallory
- Irving Bacon as Sgt. Monday Wash
- James Seay as Mark Chesney
- Ben Astar as François Leroy
- Phyllis Fowler as Running Otter
- Howard Petrie as Maj. Robert Rogers
- Cicely Browne as Bess Chesney
- Lester Matthews as Lord Jeffery Amherst
- George Leigh as Capt. Delecroix
- Louis Merrill as Raoul de Moreau
- Rusty Hamer as Jed's nephew (uncredited)
Production
William Castle says Sam Katzman was inspired to make the film by the success of Bwana Devil. Castle says he "decided to throw every goddamn thing I could think of at the camera" in the movie.
3-D supervision was by M.L. Gunzburg, creator of the Natural Vision 3-D system that had initiated the 3-D boom, previously used on Bwana Devil and House of Wax. The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location in Utah and Southern California.
Box office
Fort Ti earned an estimated $2.6 million domestically during its first year of release.
Legacy
In 1982, Fort Ti became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United Kingdom on December 5, 1982, on ITV. 3D glasses were given away with the TVTimes listings magazine, which also coincided with the TVS science programme The Real World doing a programme looking at 3-D.
The following year, it became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United States and Australia along with the Three Stooges 3-D short Pardon My Backfire.
References
References
- Zarzynski, Joseph W.. (July 18, 2013). "Fort Ticonderoga: It Plays a Role in Movie History". lakegeorgemirrormagazine.com.
- "Fort Ti: Movie Details". afi.com.
- Martin, Len D.. (1991). "Columbia Checklist: The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons, and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988". McFarland.
- Pitts, Michael R.. (2012). "Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films". McFarland.
- Castle, William. (1976). "Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America". Putnam.
- (1953). "The 1953 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures". J.W. Alicoat.
- Hayes, R. M.. (1998). "3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema". McFarland.
- "The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", ''Variety'', January 13, 1954
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