In 1871 Arizona, an escaped outlaw survives an Indian attack and helps a trading-post family retrieve their kidnapped son from marauding Apaches.In 1871 Arizona, an escaped outlaw survives an Indian attack and helps a trading-post family retrieve their kidnapped son from marauding Apaches.In 1871 Arizona, an escaped outlaw survives an Indian attack and helps a trading-post family retrieve their kidnapped son from marauding Apaches.
Evan Harris
- Zack Smith
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSome of the soundtrack sounds like the soundtrack from "The Day the Earth Stood Still", when Kkaatu and Helen Benson are fleeing in the taxi.
- GoofsWhen the wounded Wade Cooper passes out and falls face first into the stream after seeing Nancy Mailer bathing in it, he is lying with his face underwater and the broken arrow shaft is still protruding from the back of his right shoulder. When she goes to him seconds later and pulls him out of the water, he is lying mostly on the bank and his face is no longer under water, though he is still unconscious, and the arrow is missing. Later, when she arrives with him back at her camp, the arrow is back in his shoulder.
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Nice-looking but run-of-the-mill Western, including a few novelties, but also with regular elements, such as frantic action, thrills , shootouts , cavalry charges, drama , romance and some breathtaking action scenes. Dealing with prisoner of a U. S. Cavalry patrol, outlaw Wade Cooper (Dale Robertson) is detained and moved to a fort by US Cavalry. After surviving an Indian attack, he is the only survivor and is seriously injured. Nancy Mailer (Martha Hyer) rescues Wade and brings him to her husband Clint's (Wendell Corey) trading post, where she nurses the outlaw back to health over the objections of her husband, a cowardly miser, but then they're ambushed by the violent Indians. The Apaches raid the 'Mailers Trading Post', abducting the Mailers' son (Dandy Curran) and demanding rifles in exchange for his release. The fugitive outlaw helps the family recover their kidnapped son from the Apaches. Clint Mailer obtains the aid of a desperado band (Elisha Cook Jr, John Matthews, Tom Reese) led by Jud (Ted de Corsia) to steal the rifles from an Army post, but they are pursued by soldiers. Along the way, Cooper and Nancy have fallen in love. Meantime, Wade attempts to rescue the boy by leading the Indians into a booby trap in Clint's gold mine. Their Justice Was The Arrow!
Typical and routine Western with the usual incidents, emotions, Indian attacks, assaults and cavalry charges. It is a regular Western whose plot we have seen hundreds of times, dealing with a family that is besieged by the Indians and at the same time by a group of evil bandits and of course an ambiguous hero who saves them in order to stay with the lady in distress.
This movie has a passable combination of decent performances, stirring drama and attractive outdoors. The agreeable script drives mercilessly forward with emotion, a love triangle among husband, wife and outlaw, cavalry charges, overwhelming attacks and turns. Director Sidney Salkow aims for noisy action and thrills with a contemporary treatment about an outlaw who gets redemption by becoming a savior of a kidnapped son. Along with a love triangle in which implicates the three main roles: Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey. The plot is plain and simple, a blending of tarnished main actors with support character players of whom Dale Robertson holds the best role as a reckless outlaw. A warm and sometimes slow-moving storyline, makes an acceptable movie, a real time-passer in B-style . The hothouse story drives mercilessly forward with rapid action, breathtaking shooting, thrills, overwhelming attacks, and plot twists. The yarn is wonderfully located against a spectacular background from Magma Arizona Railroad, Superior, Sonoran Desert, Superstition Mountains, Arizona, Apache Leap Mountain, Superior, Picketpost Mountain, Superior, Arizona, Ray, Cochran, Arizona and Apache Trail, Arizona. However, the photography of the spectacular exteriors cannot be well appreciated due to the poor, dilapidated and faded copy of the film that is circulating. Only when a perfect remastering is done will the marvellous landscapes to be really enjoyed.
It isn't hard to pick holes in it, it is after all one of those quintessentially early 1960s Westerns in which was ignorant to intelligent scripting and screenplays. Stars Dale Robertson and Marta Hyer who give decent interpretations, but their golden days had already passed a few years before. Here the secondary cast stands out, which for a B series film is quite good with full of familiar faces, such as: Wendell Corey, Paul Mantee, Ted de Corsia, Tom Reese and the eternal supporting actor Elisha Cook Jr. Also the exciting and moving musical score by Richard LaSalle is quite good. The motion picture was unevenly and professionally directed by Sidney Salkow. He was a craftsman who had already filmed other Westerns . He realized all kind of genres such as routine westerns (Sitting Bull , The great Sioux massacre , Pathfinder) , Adventures (Prince of Pirates, Sword of the avenger), war films , Sci-Fi (The last man on Earth) , Terror (Twice-told tales) and melodramas (City without men). Salkow first worked for Republic, after joining Universal. At Columbia , he handled , among other assignments, four installments of the popular Lone Wolf series . After 1953, Salkow was primarily active as director of episodic television . Rating : 5.5/10 middling, a frankly average Western.
Typical and routine Western with the usual incidents, emotions, Indian attacks, assaults and cavalry charges. It is a regular Western whose plot we have seen hundreds of times, dealing with a family that is besieged by the Indians and at the same time by a group of evil bandits and of course an ambiguous hero who saves them in order to stay with the lady in distress.
This movie has a passable combination of decent performances, stirring drama and attractive outdoors. The agreeable script drives mercilessly forward with emotion, a love triangle among husband, wife and outlaw, cavalry charges, overwhelming attacks and turns. Director Sidney Salkow aims for noisy action and thrills with a contemporary treatment about an outlaw who gets redemption by becoming a savior of a kidnapped son. Along with a love triangle in which implicates the three main roles: Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey. The plot is plain and simple, a blending of tarnished main actors with support character players of whom Dale Robertson holds the best role as a reckless outlaw. A warm and sometimes slow-moving storyline, makes an acceptable movie, a real time-passer in B-style . The hothouse story drives mercilessly forward with rapid action, breathtaking shooting, thrills, overwhelming attacks, and plot twists. The yarn is wonderfully located against a spectacular background from Magma Arizona Railroad, Superior, Sonoran Desert, Superstition Mountains, Arizona, Apache Leap Mountain, Superior, Picketpost Mountain, Superior, Arizona, Ray, Cochran, Arizona and Apache Trail, Arizona. However, the photography of the spectacular exteriors cannot be well appreciated due to the poor, dilapidated and faded copy of the film that is circulating. Only when a perfect remastering is done will the marvellous landscapes to be really enjoyed.
It isn't hard to pick holes in it, it is after all one of those quintessentially early 1960s Westerns in which was ignorant to intelligent scripting and screenplays. Stars Dale Robertson and Marta Hyer who give decent interpretations, but their golden days had already passed a few years before. Here the secondary cast stands out, which for a B series film is quite good with full of familiar faces, such as: Wendell Corey, Paul Mantee, Ted de Corsia, Tom Reese and the eternal supporting actor Elisha Cook Jr. Also the exciting and moving musical score by Richard LaSalle is quite good. The motion picture was unevenly and professionally directed by Sidney Salkow. He was a craftsman who had already filmed other Westerns . He realized all kind of genres such as routine westerns (Sitting Bull , The great Sioux massacre , Pathfinder) , Adventures (Prince of Pirates, Sword of the avenger), war films , Sci-Fi (The last man on Earth) , Terror (Twice-told tales) and melodramas (City without men). Salkow first worked for Republic, after joining Universal. At Columbia , he handled , among other assignments, four installments of the popular Lone Wolf series . After 1953, Salkow was primarily active as director of episodic television . Rating : 5.5/10 middling, a frankly average Western.
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