Oriental adventure has starring Jeff Chandler and Mauren O'Hara battling the famous and real Redbeard brothers, though it has not historical perspective. When princess Tanya's : Maureen O'Hara, father dies, she is threatened with an unwanted marriage to Redbeard brothers: Lon Chaney Jr, Buddy Baer . But if she can win a horse race, fiery Tanya has a chance for freedom if she can only convince good-looking Bedouin chief Tamerlane : Jeff Chandler, who has the fastest black stallion in the desert to come to her aid. Along the way they find adventure, treason and love.
Enjoyable adventure movie with noisy action, pursuits, fights , sword-play and spectacular horse races. This film is made at one time, in which Universal Pictures was a studio quite noted for its Oriental or Eastern adventure movies . As this one results to be an Oriental action/adventure with usual actors of the genre and ordinary ingredients. Stars the handsome Jeff Chandler who starred various films until his early death at 42 while shooting Merril's Marauders . He performed various genres particularly Adventure, Wartime and Western, such as : Away all boats, Man in the shadow, Because of you, The Jayhawkers, Red ball express, Return to Peyton Place, being especially famous for playing chief Cochise in Broken arrow , The battle of Apache Pass, Taza son of Cochise, for whom the grey-hair had won considerable popularity . And what better co-starring could there have been than the sweet redhair Maureen O'Hara, here performing a smoldering, passionate princess who struggles for getting the possession her kingdom overthrown by her cousin played by Maxwell Reed. She along with Yvonne de Carlo were two of the best action women and swashbuckleresses in the Hollywood business . As she acted in adventure and swashbucklers as Against all flags, At sword's point, Tripoli, Bagdad, Kangaroo, Lady Godiva, The Black Swan, The Spanish main, Sinbad the Sailor, among others. Although most her popularity came from John Ford movies as The Quiet Man, Rio Grande and How green was my valley. They are very well accompanied by a fine support cast as Maxwell Reed, the gorgeous Susan Cabot, Richard Egan, Royal Dano, Dewey Martin, and special mention for the two sympathetic but bloody Redbeard brothers : Buddy Baer and Lon Chaney Jr.
The motion picture with enjoyable script by Gerald Adams, well produced by Leonard Goldstein, and being professionally directed by Charles Barton. The latter was a craftsman who directed all kinds of genres with special penchant for adventure western and comedy in which he made various Budd Abbott and Lou Costello vehicles such as : African screams, Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, Abbot and Costello meet killer Boris Karloff, Shaggy dog, Toby Tyler, Dance with me Harry, Me and Pa Kettle at the fair, Helltown, Buck Privates go home, Harmon of Michigan, Thunder trail, Thunder pass, Forlorn river, Desert gold, Wagon wheels. Rating 6/10. Decent, acceptable adventure movie.
