Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Animenter There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

boblipton After they dropped old Hopalong, Paramount seems to have given up on B Western series,s although they kept Pop Sherman employed until 1948. However, like the other majors, they dabbled in the occasional A Western, and COPPER CANYON is an inexplicably tired example. Ray Milland is an ex-Confederate officer (like all actors with Mid-Atlantic accents), making his way as a sideshow trick shooter, called upon to safeguard a town trying to get a copper mine up and running profitably. With Hedy Lamarr, MacDonald Carey, Harry Carey Jr. under the direction of John Farrow, there's nothing wrong, but it all seems like a gimmicky version of one of the Boetticher-Scott westerns of the coming decade. I had the feeling that everyone was trying too hard to be nonchalant, and Charles Lang's rather garish Technicolor camerawork -- although that may be a matter of poor choices in printing -- doesn't help.

mark.waltz Hedy Lamarr never warmed me as a movie star. She's a beautiful block of ice, able to photograph beautifully and pose in outfits of dating back to the biblical era to modern times, but we're not talking about modeling here: we're talking about giving a performance. Her sultry stares as Tondelayo were unforgettable, and she did manage to be enticing as the seductive Delilah. But for the most part, she simply reads lines rather than creates a character and never allows the camera into her heart, a definite flaw in a movie actress. Yet, she managed to last past going to the Casbah for close to two decades, so something must have been there that I'm not seeing.This western is as dull as her performance, dealing with saboteurs of copper mine workers. They want help from alleged civil war hero Ray Milland who denies being whom they claim he is. But when he shows up anyway, it's obvious that he's hiding his identity for a reason, taking on the bullies with no stopping for a break.The bad guys are MacDonald Carey and Lamarr, who seems to have a secret agenda of her own. Is she really on Carey's side, or playing him in order to help the other side? That's where this film fails to convince and become anything less than a train wreck. A fine supporting cast including Mona Freeman, Percy Helton, Frank Faylen and as a fly swatting saloon keeper, a colorfully made up Hope Emerson. A few good action sequences along the way help keep this moving, but it's like many others I've seen which did it better with an interesting story, which this lacks.

ColeArmin Ray Milland is excellent in this under-estimated western. I would compare Milland to Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper. Milland was in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, and he did A Man Alone (he directed it also). Hedy Lamarr, for her only western is marvelous, beautiful. Also appears Harry Carey Jr. But the movie owes a lot to Milland and Lamarr's performancesMagnificent sets. There is a lot of action, except perhaps in the beginning. Great direction by John Farrow, who was going to direct 3 years later Hondo, with Duke Wayne.This western is a masterpiece, it is perfect. One of the best Paramount western ever made. Unmissable, and unforgettable.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) The fifties were a time of transition for the western genre. Quite a few were using stories that could have taken place anywhere, others kept to the tradition. Copper Canyon is a traditional western, but where no money was spared in the production, with great colors and top actors. Ray Milland is an entertainer (he shows his marksmanship on stage),that comes to a town to help confederates which are being discriminated after the war. Hedy Lamarr is the woman he falls for, very pretty, and during the film you keep wandering if she's not going back to being Delilah again and betray Milland. Macdonald Carey who used to be the leading actor in many westerns, is in a supporting role as the bad guy. This is a light, pleasant entertaining film.