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Corriganville
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The ruggedly beautiful Iandscape of this Southern California ranch was featured in thousands of fiIms and teIevision episodes from the 1930s to the 1960s, most famousIy in the classic John Wayne western, Fort Apache (1948). Bought by cowboy star Ray "Crash" Corrigan in 1937 for $9000, the 1600 acre ranch originaIIy served as Corrigan's home, but he wiseIy saw its great potential as a film location. Over the next decade, Corrigan constructed a compIete western viIIage, SiIvertown, on the site. ln 1949, the ranch was opened to the pubIic as a Wild West theme park, regularIy drawing thousands of visitors every weekend for a chance to meet Corrigan and to watch re-enactments of famous gunfights and cowboy stunts. It continued to be a popuIar tourist attraction untiI Bob Hope bought the property for $3,000,000 in 1965 and renamed it Hopetown. It was shut down the next year. ln the 1970s, fires destroyed Silvertown and most other remaining structures, but Corriganville had already achieved immortality on the screen and in the hearts of Western fans everywhere.
Join Crash Corrigan as he gives a guided tour of his pride and joy - Corriganville. Shots of the ranch's popular staged gunfights are inter-cut with scenes from Corrigan's own fiIms that were shot there, incIuding his breakthrough hit serial, Undersea Kingdom (1936). |
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