Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Director:

Lesley Selander

Writers:

L.L. Foreman (novel)
Don Martin (screenplay)

Release Date:

25 April 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

Ablaze with the gun-thundering terrors of the West's most violent days!

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Sterling Hayden	...	Bart Lash
Coleen Gray	...	Christella Burke
Keith Larsen	...	Lt. Steve King
Tom Tully	...	Crenshaw (Wagon Train Scout)
Jimmy Wakely	...	Pvt. Carqueville (the Troubador who sings The Weary Stranger)
Tudor Owen	...	Tillotson (Wagon Master)
Lee Van Cleef	...	Tillotson's Henchman
John Pickard	...	Sgt. Lybarger
Carleton Young	...	Maj. Andy Pepperis
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Iron Eyes Cody	...	Chief Rasacura of the Pawnees

Runtime:

79 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Norway:12 | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

Allied Artists Pictures

Quotes:

Maj. Andy Pepperis: It doesn't matter what you've been or what you've done. There must still be some good left in you. Or have you changed so much, Bart?

Soundtrack:

THE WEARY STRANGER

Lack-luster, routine shoot-'em-up western.

The use of stock footage and uninspired acting and direction make this a very slow, routine western effort. Despite the cast (Hayden, Larson) this one is just too predictable to suffer through. And yet, in spite of it's failings, it often appears on TV while better efforts rot in a can somewhere. Go figure.