
The Naked Hills
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
Release Date: 1956-06-17
Western
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Casts

David Wayne
as Tracy Powell

Keenan Wynn
as Sam Wilkins

James Barton
as Jimmo McCann

Marcia Henderson
as Julie

Jim Backus
as Willis Haver

Denver Pyle
as Bert Killian / Narrator

Myrna Dell
as Aggie

Lewis L. Russell
as Baxter

Frank Fenton
as Harold

Fuzzy Knight
as Pitch Man