Jim Bridger (Van Heflin) tries hard to hold together a fragile truce between the Sioux and a nearby Army fort, after a nasty, racist officer murders an Indian teenager, an officer whom Bridger suspects might be involved in a massacre some time before.
Heflin and the rest of the cast, including Yvonne DeCarlo, Jack Oakie, Preston Foster, and a young Rock Hudson are all good. However, the real star of the show is the excellent, bright Technicolor photography. It's so nice to look at, it almost makes up for the picture's more by-the-numbers aspects and weak action scenes.
Though nearly forgotten these days, the real-life Jim Bridger was a towering figure and very important to the history of the west. Even though this film isn't all that bad, he still deserves a better movie.
Heflin and the rest of the cast, including Yvonne DeCarlo, Jack Oakie, Preston Foster, and a young Rock Hudson are all good. However, the real star of the show is the excellent, bright Technicolor photography. It's so nice to look at, it almost makes up for the picture's more by-the-numbers aspects and weak action scenes.
Though nearly forgotten these days, the real-life Jim Bridger was a towering figure and very important to the history of the west. Even though this film isn't all that bad, he still deserves a better movie.