Waterhole No 3 [Waterhole Three] *** (1967, James Coburn, Carroll O’Connor, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins, Timothy Carey, Bruce Dern, James Whitmore) Classic Movie Review 10,376

Director William A Graham’s entertaining, amoral 1967 comedy Western film Waterhole No 3 is set in an Arizona town called Integrity.

It is lit up with an amusing star performance by James Coburn as Lewton Cole, a murdering professional gambler, who vies with other riff-raff to find the desert hole where gold from an army robbery is stashed.

The likeable cast includes an effectively typecast Joan Blondell as a bordello madam, Carroll O’Connor as the corrupt sheriff, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins, a young Bruce Dern, Timothy Carey and James Whitmore, all of whom give appealing performances.

The writers are Joseph T Steck and Robert R Young.

Waterhole No 3 is directed by William A Graham, runs 95 minutes, is made by Geoffrey Productions, is released by Paramount, is written by Joseph T Steck and Robert R Young, is shot in Technicolor by Robert Burks, is produced by Owen Crump (executive producer), Joseph T Steck and Blake Edwards, and is scored by Dave Grusin, with Production Design by Fernando Carrere.

Also in the cast are Harry Davis, Roy Jenson, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Boles, Steve Whittaker, Ted Markland and Rupert Crosse.

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