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Box office. $1,800,000 (US/ Canada) [1] Will Penny is a 1968 American Western film written and directed by Tom Gries and starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasence. The picture was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series The Westerner starring Brian Keith called "Line Camp," also written and directed ...
Will Penny: Directed by Tom Gries. With Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors. Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Tom Gries
- 1968-04-10
The admirable thing about the movie is its devotion to real life. These are the kind of people, we feel, who must really have inhabited the West: common, direct, painfully shy in social situations and very honest. "Shane" was a cowboy movie of this type. So was "Hud," although in a modern setting.
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston stars as Will Penny, an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak. He's out of work, out of money, and staked out to die in the des...
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. When aging loner Will Penny (Charlton Heston) is hired to ride the lines around a vast ranch, he stumbles upon Catherine Allen (Joan Hackett) and her son, who are ...
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- Charlton Heston
- Tom Gries
- Paramount Pictures
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a "line-rider" job on a vast cattle ranch requiring him to keep trespassers and squatters moving until they're off the property. Ironically, he discovers that the mountain cabin reserved for the line rider has been appropriated by Catherine Allen and her young son, Horace, whose guide has deserted them en route to Oregon to join Catherine's husband.
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Will Penny was a fairly modest production, with Heston's big-star salary the largest single expense. Things didn't always go smoothly-both Lee Remick and Eva Marie Saint turned down the role that Hackett eventually accepted-but there were few major problems. In the end, however, the movie earned only $1.3 million at the box office.
