Black Patch *** (1957, George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon, Sebastian Cabot, Lynn Cartwright) – Classic Movie Review 14,021

The 1957 American black and white Western film Black Patch stars George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, and husband and wife Leo Gordon and Lynn Cartwright.

Co-writer/ director Allen H Miner’s 1957 American black and white Western film Black Patch stars George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon, and Lynn Cartwright.

George Montgomery and Leo Gordon star as former US Civil War buddies Clay Morgan and Hank Danner, who meet up again in a New Mexico town. The former is now town marshal Sheriff Clay Morgan, while the latter is a wanted bank robber. Diane Brewster also stars as Danner’s pretty wife Helen, and naturally there is a love triangle as both men desire her.

[Spoiler alert] Eventually Morgan is suspected of killing Danner to keep the loot and his wife after jailing him for a bank robbery.

The stalwart B-movie Western cast helps along this downbeat, unusual, modestly entertaining cowboy programmer, produced by Montgomery and co-written by actor Leo Gordon and co-starring his wife Lynn Cartwright. Long experienced Western star Montgomery fits the star role like a comfortable old glove, Leo Gordon gives a fine display of practised villainy, and several excellent character actors appear briefly to advantage, especially Strother Martin, Sebastian Cabot and Ned Glass.

It is notable as the first film with music by Jerry Goldsmith.

George Montgomery and Leo Gordon teamed again in the 1967 Western film Hostile Guns.

Also with House Peters Jr, Stanley Adams, John O’Malley, Gil Rankin, Strother Martin, Ted Jacques, Peter Brocco, Sebastian Cabot, Ned Glass, and Jorge Treviño [George Trevino].

Black Patch is directed by Allen H Miner, runs 83 minutes, is made by Montgomery Productions, is released by Warner Bros, is written by Leo Gordon and Allen H Miner, is shot in black and white by Edward Colman, is produced by Leo Gordon and Allen H Miner, and is scored by Jerry Goldsmith.

Release date: September 15, 1957.

The cast are George Montgomery as Clay Morgan, Diane Brewster as Helen Danner, Tom Pittman as Flytrap, Leo Gordon as Hank Danner, House Peters Jr as Holman, Jorge Treviño as Pedoline (as George Trevino), Lynn Cartwright as Kitty, Peter Brocco as Harper, Ted Jacques as Maxton, Strother Martin as Petey, Gilman Rankin as Judge Parnell, Ned Glass as Bar-Keep, John O’Malley as Colonel, Stanley Adams as Drummer, Sebastian Cabot as Frenchy De’Vere.

George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz; August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000)

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