Guns of the Timberland

Guns of the Timberland is a 1960 feature film starring Alan Ladd and Jeanne Crain. It was made by Ladds Jaguar Productions and released through Warner Bros..

Louis LAmours novel Guns of the Timberlands was published in 1955. LAmour had become popular with Hollywood following the success of Hondo and the novel was optioned by Alan Ladds company, Jaguar, in 1955. Ladd offered a lead role to Van Heflin, hoping to reunite his old costar from Shane. He also wanted Raymond Burr. At one stage the film was going to be known as Shasta.The movie was meant to be made before The Deep Six but was postponed. In 1957 it was announced the film would be made from a script by David Victor and Herbert Little, produced by Albert J Cohen. However then Alan Ladd made two TV pilots with a young writer, Aaron Spelling. Spellings work so impressed Ladd that the latter made Spelling a producer on Timberland. Robert Webb and Joseph Petracca had just written The Proud Rebel for Ladd Webb was hired to direct Timberland from a script by Petracca. ........

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