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11 April 1956 (USA) moreTagline:
PAST APACE AMBUSH...PAST TREACHERY'S SILKEN NET!...Five Dead Men Led Jim Slater Down a Trail of No Return! morePlot:
Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Learning Some Horrible Truths moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Richard Widmark | ... | Jim Slater | |
| Donna Reed | ... | Karyl Orton | |
| William Campbell | ... | Johnny Cool | |
| John McIntire | ... | Jim Bonniwell | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Sgt. George Lake | |
| Harry Morgan | ... | Tony Welker | |
| Robert J. Wilke | ... | Jeff Welker | |
| Jack Lambert | ... | Mike Benton | |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Maj. Carson | |
| Edward Platt | ... | Sheriff J.C. Marson (as Edward C. Platt) | |
| Robert Foulk | ... | Sheriff John F. Olson | |
| Phil Chambers | ... | Deputy Sheriff Dobbs | |
| Gregg Barton | ... | Sleepy | |
| Fred Graham | ... | Ned McCloud | |
| Frank Chase | ... | Cassidy, Shotgun Rider |
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Tucson, Arizona, USAFun Stuff
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[the Sheriff warns Jim about the brothers of a murderous Deputy Sheriff Jim killed in self-defense]Sheriff J.C. Marston: When they hear about this, they're going to come looking for you.
Jim Slater: Seems logical.
Sheriff J.C. Marston: If it's your idea to shoot it out with them, you're going to lose.
Jim Slater: Could be.
Sheriff J.C. Marston: And even if you beat 'em, you're going to lose... because I'm going to hang the man that wins.
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Donna Reed comes upon Richard Widmark at a place called Gila Valley where five men were massacred by Indians and one man escaped with $60,000.00. Three of the five men were identified, but none of the deceased is either Widmark's father or Reed's husband. Of course both are hunting for their respective relations.
The search yields some truths that neither one is willing to face up to. But both seek and find support and comfort in the other.
Backlash as a previous reviewer remarked is almost like a detective story set in the west. John Sturges gets some find performances out of his cast.
The two who stand out and steal the film from the stars are William Campbell as a punk gunfighter and John McIntire as the amoral outlaw leader in whose hands Widmark and Reed fall into at the end of their odyssey.
No studio backlots for this western, good location photography and a very nice plot distinguish this film. Catch it the next time AMC runs it.