Good yarn that has a grizzled Matt Dillon still ham-fisting his way through the untamed West. Lots of action and suspense. Some of it is a bit implausible - Matt Dillon learns from Michael Learned ( her name is "Mike" in the film) that her 18-year-old daughter is the result of a one-night-stand they shared in the desert. Now Matt knows this woman would take him back - yet he doesn't seem interested. Now she's looking very fine...hard to believe anyone would pass that up. Then, there's the Apache half-breed that kidnaps his daughter. This musclebound, blue eyed hunk looks like Jeffrey Hunter on steroids. Any woman could only fantasize about being abducted by such a chick magnet. All this guy has to do is wink at a woman and she would disrobe. Yet, she actually struggles to get away. Lots of great scenes - my favorite is when a tough older guy challenges the bad guy to a game of Russian Roulette - except it's with eight shot glasses - one contains poison in the tequila and they have to trade off shots. He drinks the second to last one and feigns death, hoping the other guy would celebrate by downing the last - and lethal shot instead of passing it by.
Review of Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
