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5.2/10   64 votes
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Director:
Stuart Gilmore
Writers:
Robert Hardy Andrews (short story)
Harold Shumate (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
4 May 1952 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
When White Man and Half-Breed Turn All SAVAGE! more
Plot:
There is a fortune in gold on Apache land, and Archer, a dirty politician, intends to have it. Things reach the boiling point, but Young, a slick gambler, comes along and saves the day. full summary | add synopsis
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Lamentable more

Cast

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Robert Young ... Dan Craig
Janis Carter ... Helen Dowling
Jack Buetel ... Charlie Wolf
Barton MacLane ... Marshal Cassidy
Reed Hadley ... Frank Crawford
Porter Hall ... Kraemer
Connie Gilchrist ... Ma Higgins
Sammy White ... Willy Wayne
Damian O'Flynn ... Capt. Jackson
Frank Wilcox ... Sands
Judy Walsh ... Nah-Lin
Tom Monroe ... Russell
Lee MacGregor ... Lt. Monroe
Charles Delaney ... Sergeant
Caleen Calder ... Red Headed Can-Can Girl
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Additional Details

Runtime:
81 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Lamentable, 16 April 2005
2/10
Author: lorenellroy from United Kingdom

There is a passage in the Shakespeare play " A Midsummer Night's Dream "that refers to the imaginary play of Pyramus and Thisby as being both " brief and tedious" .It would serve well as a description of this quite awful piece of garbage from the early 50's as well . The eponymous hero is Charley Wolf who is part white and part Apache and who seeks to maintain the existing uneasy peace between the two races in San Remo .He is helped by a former Confederate officer ,turned gambler (Robert Young ).The local Indian agent is a devious and corrupt individual who is seeking to get the Apaches evicted from their reservation in order to get at the gold which lies hidden there .The relationship between Wolf and his ally is shattered by their competing for the affections of the same girl -a saloon singer . The script is dire and the acting woeful ;in particular the slow and over emphatic delivery of the white actors playing Native Americans is tedious .Young -a capable enough player in other movies -looks out of sorts in the Western setting. Add muddy colour and a clichéd script and the result is racist tedium and unrelenting dullness .

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