The Shooting (1966) on Netflix
Willet Gashade returns to his mining camp to find his partner killed and his friend Coley frightened. A woman with no name hires Gashade to lead her across the desert to Kingsley.
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Plot summary
Willet Gashade comes back to the mining camp after a long trip and finds Coley in fear. Their partner Leland Drum has been shot dead by someone unseen, and Coigne, Gashade's brother, rode off moments before it happened. The next day a young woman shoots her own horse outside the camp and offers Gashade a thousand dollars to guide her to Kingsley. He distrusts her but agrees, and Coley, taken with her, comes along. She refuses to give her name and insults both men, dodging every question about the journey. In Crosstree, Gashade hears that Coigne passed through a day or two earlier. On the desert road a stranger dressed in black follows them at a distance. Coley keeps trying to talk to the woman, and she taunts him.
Cast
- Charles Eastmanas Bearded Man
- Guy El Tsosieas Indian
- Brandon Carrollas Sheriff
- B. J. Merholzas Leland Drum
- Wally Moonas Deputy
- William Mackleprangas Crosstree Townsman #1
- James Campbellas Crosstree Townsman #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Shooting (1966)
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- Rain and severe flooding crippled the first two days of filming on The Shooting, and director Monte Hellman estimated that $5,000 of the film's already small budget was eaten up by the wasted time.
- Monte Hellman asked Jack Nicholson to co-produce The Shooting as well as play the villain Billy Spear, a decision Hellman later called "the biggest mistake of my life"; Nicholson worried about the budget and argued with him over minuscule costs.
- With no money for lighting equipment, cinematographer Gregory Sandor shot the whole film in existing light, and for its many tracking shots the crew had only about eight feet of dolly track to work with.
- Monte Hellman briefly considered Sterling Hayden for the lead, then cast Millie Perkins, Warren Oates and Will Hutchins after thinking of all three at once while shopping in a Los Angeles bookstore; Perkins was his next-door neighbor at the time.
- Jack Nicholson sold the foreign rights to a French producer who went bankrupt, leaving the prints of The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind held in bond at the Paris airport for almost two years until Hellman and Nicholson won the rights back after legal maneuvering.
- Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum called The Shooting the first acid Western and cited it as an inspiration for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.
