Western drama with Stewart Granger as a would-be rancher who loses his herd in a buffalo stampede. He's convinced by blood-crazed Robert Taylor to join him in buffalo hunting. Along with part native Russ Tamblyn and one-legged coot Lloyd Nolan, they set out for the hunt. They eventually run into some natives, and after Taylor kills the men, he takes native gal Debra Paget to be his in every sense of that word. Eventually Taylor's cohorts grow just as tired of his nonsense as the viewers do. Also featuring Constance Ford as a temperamental "easy woman", Joe De Santis, and Roy Barcroft.
Taylor is usually a wooden plank, but here he's a slightly more animated despicable person. Is his performance good? Well, I really thought he was a despicable person, so I guess so. The filmmakers coordinated with the Wildlife department to allow the annual buffalo herd culling to be done in conjunction with the filming, so the buffalo killings on screen are real. In the end, this was a movie starring two actors I don't really care for, one of them playing a loathsome person, with a story centered around reprehensible aspects of the Old West (cruelty and over-hunting of buffalo, mistreatment of the natives), featuring actual animal deaths. Not exactly a fun afternoon at the Bijou.
Taylor is usually a wooden plank, but here he's a slightly more animated despicable person. Is his performance good? Well, I really thought he was a despicable person, so I guess so. The filmmakers coordinated with the Wildlife department to allow the annual buffalo herd culling to be done in conjunction with the filming, so the buffalo killings on screen are real. In the end, this was a movie starring two actors I don't really care for, one of them playing a loathsome person, with a story centered around reprehensible aspects of the Old West (cruelty and over-hunting of buffalo, mistreatment of the natives), featuring actual animal deaths. Not exactly a fun afternoon at the Bijou.