A Western dealing with the psychology of depth, written by the American screenwriter Louis Vittes.
Produced by the American producer and production manager Harold E. Knox (his name meaning "The one who beats Death").
Directed in 1957 by the American film and cinema editor Gene Fowler Jr. (his name meaning "The one who follows Life being Alive").
Starring Charles Bronson (his name meaning "The one who will find a Son") and John Carradine (his name meaning "The one who is Alive gives the Joy of Life").
The events in SHOWDOWN AT BOOT HILL take place in Mound City (Missouri, USA).
Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters, or those who "died with their boots on" (i.e., violently).
The first Boot Hill was the Cemetery in Hays (Mississippi). By 1872, when the town of Dodge City was founded, the Hays City Boot Hill was already populated with 36 grave sites.
Boot Hill in Tombstone (ARIZONA) was founded in 1878 on a slight hill north-west of the city. This historical cemetery was the burial ground, for all of Tombstones earliest pioneers.
Dodge City's was the original Boot Hill, so-called because the men buried there “died with their boots on,” either in a gunfight or from being hanged, as opposed to expiring quietly in their beds of illness or old age. For more info, see
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