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Garden of Evil Overview:

Garden of Evil (1954) was a Western - Romance Film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Charles Brackett and Saul Wurtzel.

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Garden of Evil (1954): Starring Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark

It does feel like one of the grand old westerns we left behind in more recent years. It’s a big picture in the horizontal majesty of widescreen, Glorious Technicolor, backed by the only score Bernard Hermann would ever arrange for the West. There’s little doubt we are in for a spectacle ... Read full article


Garden of Evil (1954, Henry Hathaway)

For a while it seems like the third act of Garden of Evil will make up for the rest of the film’s problems. Or at least give it somewhere to excel. Sadly, director Hathaway and screenwriter Frank Fention inexplicably tack on a terrible coda–tying into the title no less–and effectiv... Read full article


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Garden of Evil Quotes:

Fiske: Say, Hooker, before you became an idiot lookin' for gold, what were you?
Hooker: An idiot without it.

Fiske: It's a good trick, and it'll work.
Leah Fuller: On who?
Leah Fuller: On me because I'm stayin' with you.
Leah Fuller: Why?
Fiske: [Chuckles] Because I'm a fool.
Leah Fuller: Not to me.
Fiske: [Hesitatingly] What am I to you?
Leah Fuller: Maybe it'll help if I tell you.
Fiske: It won't.
Leah Fuller: It's easy to say because you're nothing. You're nothing at all. Just nothing.

Fiske: Takin' four men like us to a mountain of gold!
Hooker: She took what there was.
Fiske: Yeah, that's true. The barrel was empty. She scraped the bottom.

Luke Daly: [Grabbing Fiske's arm as he walks away from him] I'm talkin'! Don't you turn your back on me!
Fiske: [Slapping away Daly's hand] You're right, Daly. A man should never turn his back on you, not if he cares about something happening.

Fiske: [Seeing Leah feeding sugar to her horse] Look, you see that? Before this is over, you'll be just like that horse, eatin' right out of her hand.
Hooker: Maybe it isn't the woman. Maybe it's the sugar.
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Garden of Evil Fact
This is the only Western for which Bernard Herrmann composed a score.

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