Fort Courageous

Probably among the best of Lesley Selander, who also gave us good films such as RIDING SHOTGUN and other "Fort" films, mostly in the late fifties and early sixties. So this western is a good surprise from a B film maker; Lesley Selander was not John Ford nor Henry Hathaway, and for this reason I was so amazed by the character study and also some directing good ideas. Some torture sequences which were not so far from great director Bob Aldrich for ULZANA'S RAID or a John Sturges's film. Don Red Barry is also excellent in this role of an old timer, a vet soldier about to get retired. Yes a damn pretty good B western. In the early sixties, there were many of this kind, most made by the likes of Lesley Selander, RG Springsteen, Harry Keller, William Witney, Bill Claxton, George Sherman.... You can also have here some kind of Gordon Douglas' CHUKA perfume, atmosphere....