Garden of Evil
Directed by Henry Hathaway 100 mins (1954)
Gary Cooper – Hooker
Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the Indian-infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the lady's husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised $2000 each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and/or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.
Also starring Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell and Rita Moreno.
Many of the musical motifs in Bernard Herrmann's score are reminiscent of those he used a few years later in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo."