Despite a very good performance by Robert Taylor as a native Indian facing discrimination after his heroic war efforts during the Civil War, the film is a rather routine one.
Louis Calhern plays the heavy here- an attorney full of prejudice who causes the tragedy to unfold in the Wyoming territory, after the civil war and the coming of the Homestead Act.
It's usually a movie adage that never in the history of motion pictures has the cavalry ever been late. Too bad that those famous lines didn't work here.
Spring Byington was probably ending her wonderful movie career dating back to the 1930's if not before. As the mother of the lawyer attempting to help the Taylor character, her part was rather wasted here. I guess that television would be more adventurous to her with the coming of "December Bride."
Yes, we can identify this film with Wounded Knee and other outrages committed against minorities through the ages.
Louis Calhern plays the heavy here- an attorney full of prejudice who causes the tragedy to unfold in the Wyoming territory, after the civil war and the coming of the Homestead Act.
It's usually a movie adage that never in the history of motion pictures has the cavalry ever been late. Too bad that those famous lines didn't work here.
Spring Byington was probably ending her wonderful movie career dating back to the 1930's if not before. As the mother of the lawyer attempting to help the Taylor character, her part was rather wasted here. I guess that television would be more adventurous to her with the coming of "December Bride."
Yes, we can identify this film with Wounded Knee and other outrages committed against minorities through the ages.