A stranger rides into town. It's Ron Ely, and he's looking for an Indian. Pretty shopgirl Luana Patten sends him out to the oil well, where they figure he's a wildcatter, and they drench him in crude. Ely doesn't leave, despite Charles McGraw, Cllaude Akins, Lee Van Cleef and others not wanting him there.
Well, you'd hardly have this Universal Shaky A western if he left, would you? It's a darker and more complex story than you'd get in one of the old B westerns; oh, some baddie might have lynched the land owner for the mineral rights, and forged his name to a transfer, but he'd hardly be sharing the well with the entire town. He'd have enough gelt to do it on his own, or would be rustling cattle or robbing stage coaches for the capital. And it wouldn't have been an Indian; however Universal had been making westerns sympathetic to Amerindians since Broken Arrow.
Economics, bigotry, and Eastmancolor aside, it's a decent B western. Still, a good way to spend an hour or two.
Well, you'd hardly have this Universal Shaky A western if he left, would you? It's a darker and more complex story than you'd get in one of the old B westerns; oh, some baddie might have lynched the land owner for the mineral rights, and forged his name to a transfer, but he'd hardly be sharing the well with the entire town. He'd have enough gelt to do it on his own, or would be rustling cattle or robbing stage coaches for the capital. And it wouldn't have been an Indian; however Universal had been making westerns sympathetic to Amerindians since Broken Arrow.
Economics, bigotry, and Eastmancolor aside, it's a decent B western. Still, a good way to spend an hour or two.