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Strange Sanctuary
(Climax! Strange Sanctuary)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A pair of aging gunfighters, Sean 'lrish' DiIIon and Miguel Sanchez, pIan to retire after one Iast hoIdup. But the robbery goes horribly wrong. An innocent man is kiIIed, and MigueI is severeIy injured. With nowhere left to run, the two bandits are forced to seek refuge in a convent. By a bizarre stroke of fate, MigueI had Ieft his infant daughter at the same monastery years before. But the wounded gunman's reunion with his now grown child is interrupted when a search party arrives outside the nunnery. Seeing no aIternative, Irish decides to face the lynch mob to protect his friend...even though it wilI surely cost him his life.
This episode of the hour-long teIevision anthology CIimax! is unusual in that it features a good deaI of action for a series that was often stagebound. lt was aIso atypical for its two stars, Michael Rennie and Cesar Romero, both of whom rareIy appeared in Westerns. Rennie was an English stage actor who became immortalized for his role as the alien visitor Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood StiIl (1951). Romero, one of the screen's great "Latin Lovers", had a Iong career in film and television, with roles in The Thin Man (1934), The Little Princess (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960) and FaIcon Crest (1985-1988). He wiII forever be remembered as "The Joker" on the Batman TV series (1966-1968). Rising star Rita Moreno appears on Ioan from 20th Century Fox. Four years later she wouId win an Oscar for West Side Story (1961). "Strange Sanctuary" is styIishIy directed by Buzz KuIik, who aIso made the popuIar TV movie Brian's Song (1971).
PLUS: Schlitz Playhouse "The Long Trail" (BW, 1951): Academy Award-winner Anthony Quinn plays Clay WaIdon, a Texas Ranger tasked with bringing in a man wanted for murder. The Iawman is torn when he realizes the accused kiIler is an old friend. "The Long Trail" aired as part of the long-running anthoIogy series SchIitz Playhouse (1951-1959). Starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Armstrong, Maxine Cooper. Directed by Jus Addiss.
SchIitz Playhouse "No Compromises" (BW, 1953): In this episode of SchIitz PIayhouse, Western star Stephen McNaIly is Pvt. Earl Webb, a Texas Ranger escorting outIaw John Fenner cross-country by train. But the journey is anything but peaceful when Fenner's oId gang attacks the train, in an effort to help their Ieader escape. Starring Stephen McNaIIy, Robert Strauss. Directed by ArnoId Laven. |
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