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    Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette. The film was made by Solar Productions in association with and released by Paramount Pictures.

  3. Dec 19, 2023 · Is Nevada Smith based on a true story? Yes, Nevada Smith is based on a novel titled “The Carpetbaggers” by Harold Robbins. However, the film deviates from the original story in certain aspects.

  4. The role of Nevada Smith was originally created by Alan Ladd in The Carpetbaggers. A prequel highlighting the Smith character with Ladd was proposed, but the actor's untimely death at age 50 precluded that. Browse Fun Facts and Trivia about at Classic Movie Hub (CMH).

  5. In the novel, Nevada Smith is a Hollywood cowboy actor in the 1920s. The novel is divided into nine”books” and The Story of Nevada Smith is Book Two and covers fifty pages of tiny text. It’s a flashback, rather than a prequel.

  6. Sep 4, 2014 · Max Sand--Nevada Smith's real name--is a half-breed who is supposed to be just 16 years old when the film starts. Although I suppose it's possible that Max takes strictly after his father; blonde haired, 35 year old McQueen looks nothing like a teenager with a Native American parent.

  7. Feb 1, 2016 · Four years after the remarkable success of How The West Was Won (1962), Henry Hathaway directed Nevada Smith, a well-knit Hollywood western starring Steve McQueen as the young and naive Max Sand who finds his parents brutally murdered.

  8. Jun 21, 2019 · Steve McQueen is Nevada Smith, a young man whose father and Indian mother are slaughtered by three men convinced there’s a fortune hidden somewhere on their property. After all, they’ve heard about the silver nugget Sam Sands used to purchase supplies in town.