Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.
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- TriviaIn July of 1955, a Hollywood Reporter news article stated that Anne Baxter was originally cast in the film, but had to cancel after filming delays caused scheduling conflicts with her other commitments.
- GoofsWhen the 'Mile High' stagecoach enters the town with the dead passengers aboard, one of the horses lies dead also. It then mysteriously disappears.
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Sen. Blakely: In a small way, I'm trying to unite our people: the Indians and the white.
Amy Clarke: I hope your scalp is glued on tight. Have you ever met an Indian face to face?
Sen. Blakely: Only in the literary sense. You see, I happen to be a student of anthropology.
Amy Clarke: So was General Custer. It didn't help him much.
- ConnectionsFeatured in That's Action (1977)
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The left handed gun of Dale Robertson
A cracking start to this 1956 western which unfortunately tends to slow up towards the end. I loved watching Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie in Well Fargo on TV with his quick draw left handed gun belt, when I was a kid. I notice one reviewer here says 'No Major Stars' which made me smile a bit, as I imagine the author is from a more recent generation of film and TV fans. Linda Darnell was certainly a major star in the 1940's in films like My Darling Clementine and both Dale Robertson and Ward Bond were major TV western stars in the 1950's/60's in Wells Fargo as mentioned and Wagon Train, in fact their stars grew after this film Dakota Incident was made in 1956. Sadly Linda Darnell died in a house fire in 1965 at the young age of 41. As I said earlier, the film opens with a terrific scene involving three outlaws who fall out which climaxes in a street gunfight, obviously with that famous left handed gun being the winner. All this in the first half hour, after which the story involves a coach being pulled into town with all the occupants dead due to an Indian attack. Several residents want a ride on the coach to Laramie and insist on going so our hero, Robertson takes on the task. There follows more Indian attacks and double crossing until just a handful of characters are left alive, and regrettably the picture ends with a rather predictable toned down ending which is rather disappointing for a film that started out so promising. If only the second half had lived up to the first I would have recommended it more highly.
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- Maverick1962
- Nov 11, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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