This B film attempts to do for the great Comanche warrior chief Quannah Parker what Broken Arrow did for Cochise. Kent Smith as Quannah quite frankly is doing a flat out imitation of Jeff Chandler in his greatest role. Quannah deserves better than that.
Scouts Dana Andrews and Nestor Paiva are trying to get Quannah Parker to sit down and negotiate a peace. He's beaten everything the U.S. Army has thrown at him and that part of the film ain't fiction. And he's in an impregnable redoubt.
Andrews and Paiva are beset by troublemakers on both sides. Scalphunter Stacy Harris wants to keep a lucrative business going and Henry Brandon as sub-chief Black Cloud is not counting the human cost in Comanche lives. Andrews and Paiva have their work cut out for them.
This was a bad year for Henry Brandon as a Comanche. He meets a no good end here and in The Searchers in the same year. And ironically in Two Rode Together, he got to play Quannah Parker for John Ford.
The movie also introduced Linda Cristal as a Comanche captive that Andrews takes a fancy to. She also would play another Comanche captive in Two Rode Together.
Quannah Parker's story deserved an epic western and while this film is an unpretentious and good B western, one would hope that a bigger film might tell Quannah's tale and make him the central character.
Scouts Dana Andrews and Nestor Paiva are trying to get Quannah Parker to sit down and negotiate a peace. He's beaten everything the U.S. Army has thrown at him and that part of the film ain't fiction. And he's in an impregnable redoubt.
Andrews and Paiva are beset by troublemakers on both sides. Scalphunter Stacy Harris wants to keep a lucrative business going and Henry Brandon as sub-chief Black Cloud is not counting the human cost in Comanche lives. Andrews and Paiva have their work cut out for them.
This was a bad year for Henry Brandon as a Comanche. He meets a no good end here and in The Searchers in the same year. And ironically in Two Rode Together, he got to play Quannah Parker for John Ford.
The movie also introduced Linda Cristal as a Comanche captive that Andrews takes a fancy to. She also would play another Comanche captive in Two Rode Together.
Quannah Parker's story deserved an epic western and while this film is an unpretentious and good B western, one would hope that a bigger film might tell Quannah's tale and make him the central character.