Fort Ti

{{Infobox film

| name = Fort Ti

| image = Fort Ti 1953 poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = William Castle

| producer = Sam Katzman

| screenplay = Robert E. Kent

| story = Robert E. Kent

| starring = George Montgomery
Joan Vohs

| cinematography = Lester H. White, Lothrop B. Worth

| editing = William A. Lyon

| color_process = Technicolor

| studio = Columbia Pictures

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{film date|1953|5|29}}

| runtime = 73 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| gross = $2.6 million

}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.lakegeorgemirrormagazine.com/2013/07/18/fort-ticonderoga-it-plays-a-role-in-movie-history/|title=Fort Ticonderoga: It Plays a Role in Movie History|last=Zarzynski|first=Joseph W.|date=July 18, 2013|publisher=lakegeorgemirrormagazine.com|access-date=August 9, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=53591|title=Fort Ti: Movie Details|publisher=afi.com|access-date=August 9, 2015}} Fort Ti was distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States.{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Len D.|title=Columbia Checklist: The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons, and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988|year=1991|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-899-50556-2|page=110}}

The film is set in 1759 at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.{{cite book|last=Pitts|first=Michael R. |title=Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films|edition=2|year=2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-786-46372-5|page=113}}

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 François 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.{{cite book|first=William|last=Castle|title=Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America|year=1976 |publisher=Putnam |page=124}}

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.{{cite book|title=The 1953 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures|volume=35|year=1953|publisher=J.W. Alicoat|page=145}} The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location in Utah and Southern California.{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=R. M.|title=3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema|year=1998|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-786-40578-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/3dmovies00rmha/page/206 206]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/3dmovies00rmha/page/206}}

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. 3D glasses were given away with the "TV Times" listings magazine. The following year, it became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United States and Australia along with the Three Stooges 3-D short Pardon My Backfire.

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0045784}}
{{TCMDb title|id=28243}}
[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=53591 Fort Ti] at American Film Institute
[https://archive.org/details/variety190-1953-05/page/n69/mode/1up/search/%22sam+katzman%22?q=%22sam+katzman%22 Review of film] at Variety

Category:1953 films

Category:1953 Western (genre) films

Category:Films set in 1759

Category:1953 3D films

Category:American Western (genre) films

Category:Columbia Pictures films

Category:Films directed by William Castle

Category:Films set in New York (state)

Category:Films set in the Thirteen Colonies

Category:Films shot in California

Category:Films shot in Utah

Category:French and Indian War films