Rio Conchos (1964)

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Writers:

Joseph Landon (screenplay) and
Clair Huffaker (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 November 1964 (West Germany)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on...

Plot Keywords:

Apache | Confederate | Knife Throwing | Post Civil War | Burning Building

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Richard Boone	...	Maj. James 'Jim' Lassiter
Stuart Whitman	...	Capt. Haven
Anthony Franciosa	...	Juan Luis Rodriguez / Juan Luis Martinez (as Tony Franciosa)
Jim Brown	...	Sgt. Franklyn
Wende Wagner	...	Sally (Apache girl)
Warner Anderson	...	Col. Wagner
Rodolfo Acosta	...	Bloodshirt (Apache chief)
Barry Kelley	...	Croupier at Presidio
Vito Scotti	...	Bandit chief
House Peters Jr.	...	Maj. Johnson
Kevin Hagen	...	Maj. Johnson / Blondebeard
Edmond O'Brien	...	Col. Theron 'Gray Fox' Pardee

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Norway:16 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Film debut of Jim Brown. He gave up his football career, at its peak, to try acting.

Quotes:

Bloodshirt: With new guns, Apache will kill, kill, kill, and white guy never forget what he get from apache, all his blood from wife and child to remind him.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Jim Brown: All American (2002) (TV)

pretty good western

This was directed by Gordon Douglas and stars Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Jim Brown and Edmond O'Brien. Boone stars as a former major in the confederate army and is now just a drunk who hates the Indians and kills as many as he can. Boone is found with a repeating rifle that was stolen from the army but he didn't know that and is thrown in jail. Whitman was the soldier who was in charge of the rifles but they were stolen and taken down to Mexico. So Whitman and Brown go after the rifles undercover and they take Boone and Anthony Franciosa, a Mexican who was about to be hanged, along with them. It's a pretty good western and it's nice to see Boone with the starring role instead of playing the villain.