"Return to Warbow" (1958)
The above screen shot from the Columbia Western "Return to Warbow," starring Phil Carey, features the Iverson Movie Ranch's Midway House, which I recently wrote about in a blog entry that you can find by
clicking here. In the short time since I wrote that post the house turned up again in this movie, and this time it's a two-story building — or so they want us to believe.
It took me back for a moment when I saw it as two stories, until I realized how kind of obviously fake it looks — and how easily the two-story effect was achieved. All it took was building a fake front for a supposed second story and propping it up on the roof of the main house. The amusing thing is the shadow gives it away. If you look closely at the shadow cast by the second story, it's clearly a shadow that would be cast by a false front — not the full-sized shadow that a full second story would cast.
Here's another look at the original screen shot with the shadow highlighted and the nearby Fury Set identified. It's easy to miss the Fury buildings because that background is dark, but if you squint you may be able to make out the barn on the left and a small house on the right.
