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'Fort Ti' is a 1953 American 3-D Western film directed by William Castle, and starring George Montgomery and Joan Vohs. Written by Robert E. Kent, the film is the first Western to be released in 3-D and the first 3-D feature to be released in Technicolor by a major studio. 'Fort Ti' was distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States.

The film is set in 1759 at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.

Premise



As war is raging across 18th-century colonial America, a band of famed native fighters join British forces for an assault on a French stronghold.

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 Franois Leroy

* Phyllis Fowler as Running Otter

* Howard Petrie as Maj. Robert Rogers

* Cicely Browne as Bess Chesney

* Lester Matthews as Lord Jeffery Amherst

* George Leigh as Capt. Delecroix

* Louis Merrill as Raoul de Moreau

* Rusty Hamer as Jed's nephew (uncredited)

Production



William Castle says Sam Katzman was inspired to make the film by the success of 'Bwana Devil'. Castle says he "decided to throw every goddamn thing I could think of at the camera" in the movie.

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'. The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location in Utah and Southern California.

Box office



'Fort Ti' earned an estimated $2.6 million domestically during its first year of release."The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", 'Variety', January 13, 1954

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'.

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