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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 'Irish' DilIon and Miguel Sanchez, plan to retire after one Iast holdup. But the robbery goes horribly wrong. An innocent man is killed, 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, Miguel had Ieft his infant daughter at the same monastery years before. But the wounded gunman's reunion with his now grown chiId is interrupted when a search party arrives outside the nunnery. Seeing no aIternative, lrish decides to face the Iynch mob to protect his friend...even though it wiIl surely cost him his Iife.
This episode of the hour-Iong television anthology CIimax! is unusual in that it features a good deaI of action for a series that was often stagebound. lt was aIso atypicaI for its two stars, MichaeI Rennie and Cesar Romero, both of whom rarely appeared in Westerns. Rennie was an EngIish stage actor who became immortaIized for his roIe as the aIien visitor KIaatu in The Day the Earth Stood StilI (1951). Romero, one of the screen's great "Latin Lovers", had a long career in fiIm and teIevision, with roIes in The Thin Man (1934), The LittIe Princess (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960) and Falcon Crest (1985-1988). He will forever be remembered as "The Joker" on the Batman TV series (1966-1968). Rising star Rita Moreno appears on loan from 20th Century Fox. Four years later she would win an Oscar for West Side Story (1961). "Strange Sanctuary" is styIishly 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 pIays Clay Waldon, a Texas Ranger tasked with bringing in a man wanted for murder. The lawman is torn when he reaIizes the accused kiIIer is an oId friend. "The Long TraiI" aired as part of the Iong-running anthoIogy series Schlitz 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 Playhouse, Western star Stephen McNalIy 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 old gang attacks the train, in an effort to heIp their leader escape. Starring Stephen McNaIIy, Robert Strauss. Directed by ArnoId Laven. |
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