"Dakota Incident" is a film made with TruColor film stock. Surprisingly, unlike the first generation of TruColor stock, it really does have true color, as it uses three colors to create the whole spectrum of colors. The original was a two-color process....one that made a kind of color palate...one that is much more orange-green than true color. Sadly, despite this, the print on YouTube is also very fuzzy....and you can't truly enjoy the film stock.
The story spends much of its time in a small town. John (Dale Robertson) arrives there, angry, because his two partners shot him and left him for dead....and now he wants revenge. But John isn't quite as bloodthirsty as you'd expect and after shooting only one of them in self-defense, he and a group of folks board the stage coach for Laramie.
On the way, their stage coach is attacked by some of the natives. This really challenges the beliefs of one of the members of the group, the Senator (Ward Bond), who is for trying to make peace with the Indians. And, the rest of the film consists of the small group slowly getting picked off as they're out of water and trapped in a ravine.
This is a very tense film...and well made. I was also surprised because it seemed to have a message that Indians are horrible murderers...though by the end, that is fortunately not the case. Well made, well acted and well worth seeing.
