New owners to renovate the Mescal Movie Set east of Tucson | Entertainment

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Much work remains to be done to achieve all of this.

Some of the buildings, such as the saloon that was built during the filming of The Quick and the Dead, are still in relatively good condition.

“We call it the saloon that Sharon Stone built,” Sankey said. “She was a producer on that film.”

Others, like the building that served as the courthouse in Paul Newman’s classic The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, are on the verge of collapse.

At one point the Mescal Movie Set had 45 buildings, many of which were built to be moved to change the look of the city.

Of the remaining buildings – including the buildings along the main thoroughfare, an out-of-town ranch house to the west, and a nearby cavalry fortress built for the 1997 television movie, Buffalo Soldiers – “each of the roofs leaks,” Sankey said. “Our greatest concern at the moment is the security, the stabilization of the buildings, the flooring and the roofing.”

To do this, the film set has recruited a small army of volunteers who have been working non-stop since the beginning of April to get the property back in the cold.

Cindy Kuhn, the operation’s office manager, said she had an ongoing list of about 300 volunteers who have agreed to help.

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