Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.
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Philip Carey
- Wade Harper
- (as Phil Carey)
Bill Catching
- Anderson
- (uncredited)
Cecil Combs
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Frank Fenton
- Army Captain
- (uncredited)
Bernie Gozier
- Warrior
- (uncredited)
Kansas Moehring
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
- Sgt. Phillips
- (uncredited)
Guy Teague
- Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Glenn Thompson
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Nick Thompson
- Medicine Man
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThree of the rivers mentioned in the movie--The Little Blue River, The Elkhorn River and The Loup River--actually exist, but they are not close to the real Fort Kearny. The closest, The Loup River, is located over 60 miles from Fort Kearny. The Little Blue River would be about 100 miles from Fort Kearny, and the Elkhorn River is just west of Omaha, over 150 miles east of Fort Kearny.
- GoofsA motor, likely a generator, is audible during the dialogue of several scenes and is particularly noticeable at six minutes into the film. Motors could not have been a natural background noise in Nebraska during the 1860's.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pushover (1954)
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Disjointed 3D Western
I last saw this western on a black & white set when I was 13 and my sole memory of it was an enormous close-up of a hand clutching a knife about to be plunged into a sentry's back; thus alerting the viewer to the fact that this was originally in 3D. That explains the occasionally jerky cutting to get the camera into the best position for 3D effects like a chair being crashed into the camera (while some of the exteriors are created to very odd effect by foreground objects like rocks or shrubs gliding in front of grainy long-shots).
The more conventional footage is attractively shot in Technicolor, but the budget plainly didn't allow for many cavalrymen or injuns, so the siege that takes up most of the second half of the film is an underpopulated business; while the scenes inside the besieged cabin are far too overlit.
A young Lee Van Cleef in a Yankee uniform figures prominently as the principal baddie. In it much more briefly is Dennis Weaver as a bone-headed Yankee captain who swiftly learns the hard way he should have heeded the hero's advice.
The more conventional footage is attractively shot in Technicolor, but the budget plainly didn't allow for many cavalrymen or injuns, so the siege that takes up most of the second half of the film is an underpopulated business; while the scenes inside the besieged cabin are far too overlit.
A young Lee Van Cleef in a Yankee uniform figures prominently as the principal baddie. In it much more briefly is Dennis Weaver as a bone-headed Yankee captain who swiftly learns the hard way he should have heeded the hero's advice.
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- richardchatten
- Nov 3, 2019
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