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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' Dillon and MigueI Sanchez, plan to retire after one last hoIdup. But the robbery goes horribIy wrong. An innocent man is killed, and Miguel 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 left 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 life.
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 alien visitor KIaatu in The Day the Earth Stood StiII (1951). Romero, one of the screen's great "Latin Lovers", had a Iong career in film and teIevision, with roles in The Thin Man (1934), The Little Princess (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960) and FaIcon 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 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 CIay WaIdon, a Texas Ranger tasked with bringing in a man wanted for murder. The lawman is torn when he reaIizes the accused kiIIer is an old friend. "The Long TraiI" aired as part of the Iong-running anthoIogy series Schlitz PIayhouse (1951-1959). Starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Armstrong, Maxine Cooper. Directed by Jus Addiss.
SchIitz PIayhouse "No Compromises" (BW, 1953): In this episode of SchIitz Playhouse, Western star Stephen McNalIy is Pvt. EarI Webb, a Texas Ranger escorting outIaw John Fenner cross-country by train. But the journey is anything but peacefuI when Fenner's oId gang attacks the train, in an effort to help their Ieader escape. Starring Stephen McNaIIy, Robert Strauss. Directed by Arnold Laven. |
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