After he is tracked, caught and chained to a wagon train for killing, in cold blood, three brothers in revenge for the murder of three people closest to him, his wife and his two boys, Comanche Todd (Richard Widmark), leads a wagon to safety through Apache country...
It is an intense drama because Col. Normand's train was massacred by the savages and six young survivors were left on his hands, putting their trust in a renegade murderer to bring them out of the wilderness
Delmer Daves tries to paint the West as a perfect artist proving himself as a talented director of the Western movies... As in "Broken Arrow," "Drum Beat," "3:l0 to Yuma," and "The Hanging Tree," this great director gives us, in his exciting Western, a study of several characters as individuals and as representatives of virtues, vices, and other abstract qualities...
Richard Widmark gives a great performance as a man who took the Comanche law to avenge his people For him there was no "white man's law" for hundreds of miles!
Felicia Farr gives a sweet performance as the girl in love... For her Widmark could have saved himself He could have gone and she urged him to go
Susan Kohner tells her sister Valinda (Stephanie Griffin) that she acts so clean but she thinks so dirty And when she says "Indian-lover" and she makes it sound so filthy
Tommy Rettiga lot more man than a boy is the most effective member of the cast, sincere in his emotional feelings and highly amusing...
Nick Adams saw those falls this morning but refuses to notice that the kid could get swept over them
George Mathews plays Sheriff Bull Harper with a killer he's bringing to justice He explained to the Christians 'not to be fooled by the color of his eyes and his skin. He may be white, but inside he's all Comanche.'
Col. William Normand (Douglas Kennedy) asks the Sheriff to secure the prisoner but to stop his brutality
Filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope, the picture has plenty of action, good exterior photography including splendid picturesque shots of the "Canyon of death", the rocks, plains and rivers...
It is an intense drama because Col. Normand's train was massacred by the savages and six young survivors were left on his hands, putting their trust in a renegade murderer to bring them out of the wilderness
Delmer Daves tries to paint the West as a perfect artist proving himself as a talented director of the Western movies... As in "Broken Arrow," "Drum Beat," "3:l0 to Yuma," and "The Hanging Tree," this great director gives us, in his exciting Western, a study of several characters as individuals and as representatives of virtues, vices, and other abstract qualities...
Richard Widmark gives a great performance as a man who took the Comanche law to avenge his people For him there was no "white man's law" for hundreds of miles!
Felicia Farr gives a sweet performance as the girl in love... For her Widmark could have saved himself He could have gone and she urged him to go
Susan Kohner tells her sister Valinda (Stephanie Griffin) that she acts so clean but she thinks so dirty And when she says "Indian-lover" and she makes it sound so filthy
Tommy Rettiga lot more man than a boy is the most effective member of the cast, sincere in his emotional feelings and highly amusing...
Nick Adams saw those falls this morning but refuses to notice that the kid could get swept over them
George Mathews plays Sheriff Bull Harper with a killer he's bringing to justice He explained to the Christians 'not to be fooled by the color of his eyes and his skin. He may be white, but inside he's all Comanche.'
Col. William Normand (Douglas Kennedy) asks the Sheriff to secure the prisoner but to stop his brutality
Filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope, the picture has plenty of action, good exterior photography including splendid picturesque shots of the "Canyon of death", the rocks, plains and rivers...