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28 August 1953 (USA)
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Lieut. Billings and his army patrol are ordered to deliver a new peace treaty to the Indian Commissioner...
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(Complete credited cast)| Robert Stack | ... | Lt. Billings | |
| Joan Taylor | ... | Wanima | |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Sgt. Clarke | |
| Keith Larsen | ... | Taslik | |
| Peter Graves | ... | Trooper Tolson | |
| Robert J. Wilke | ... | Trooper Grady (as Robert Wilke) | |
| Walter Reed | ... | Trooper Allison | |
| John Doucette | ... | Trooper Charnofsky | |
| Douglas Kennedy | ... | Trooper Clancy | |
| Charles Nolte | ... | Cpl. Hamilton | |
| James Parnell | ... | Trooper Martin | |
| Paul Richards | ... | Trooper Perkins | |
| William Pullen | ... | Jeb | |
| Richard H. Cutting | ... | Commissioner Kirby (as Richard Cutting) |
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89 min
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Color (Pathécolor)
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Elaine, My Sweet Elaine
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An unjustly-overlooked masterpiece. The almost-unrecognizably young Robert Stack plays the hardened CO of a company entrusted with delivering a treaty. If the chief for whom it is intended does not receive it within the week, he will declare war. Of course, complications ensue...Many of the characters and plot points seem cliched, but only because the film shows its age. Look past the vestiges of '50s moviemaking--blue-eyed squaws, etc.--for strikingly modern subject matter: divorce and Native American rage at continued injustices in particular. Tremendously taut and exciting, to boot. See this movie!