Fort Ti
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The film is set in 1759 at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.[4]
Cast
- George Montgomery as Capt. Jedediah Horn
- Joan Vohs as Fortune Mallory
- Irving Bacon as Sgt. Monday Wash
- James Seay as Mark Chesney
- Ben Astar as François Leroy
- Phyllis Fowler as Running Otter
- Howard Petrie as Maj. Robert Rogers
- Cicely Browne as Bess Chesney
- Lester Matthews as Lord Jeffrey Amherst
- George Leigh as Capt. Delecroix
- Louis Merrill as Raoul de Moreau
- Rusty Hamer as Jed's nephew (uncredited)
Production notes
3-D supervision was by M.L. Gunzburg, creator of the Natural Vision 3-D system that had initiated the 3-D boom, previously used on Bwana Devil and House of Wax.[5] The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location in Utah and Southern California.[6]
Box office
Fort Ti earned an estimated $2.6 million domestically during its first year of release.[7]
Legacy
In 1982, Fort Ti became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United Kingdom. The following year, it became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United States along with the Three Stooges 3-D short Pardon My Backfire.[1]
References
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- Fort Ti at the TCM Movie Database
- Fort Ti at American Film Institute
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- ↑ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", Variety, January 13, 1954
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- 1953 films
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- American films
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- Columbia Pictures films
- Films directed by William Castle
- Films set in New York
- Films set in the 1750s
- Films set in the Thirteen Colonies
- Films shot in California
- Films shot in Utah
- French and Indian War films
