Garden of Evil
| Garden of Evil | |
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Screenplay by | Frank Fenton |
| Story by | Fred Freiberger William Tunberg |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Susan Hayward Richard Widmark |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner Jorge Stahl, Jr. |
| Edited by | James B. Clark |
| Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,070,000 or $2.5 million |
| Box office | $3.1 million (US rentals) or $3.4 million |
Garden of Evil is a 1954 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Henry Hathaway about three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper as an ex-lawman, Richard Widmark as a gambler, and Cameron Mitchell as a bounty hunter, who, along with Vicente, played by Víctor Manuel Mendoza, are hired by a woman (Susan Hayward) to rescue her husband (Hugh Marlowe), who is trapped in a collapsed mine. Rita Moreno appears at the beginning of the film as a Mexican cantina singer/dancer. Director Hathaway took special pains to use the stunning vistas of the Mexican locations to show off the CinemaScope screen dimensions to best effect.