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6.6/10   316 votes
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Réalisateur:
John Sturges
Writers:
Borden Chase (screenplay)
Frank Gruber (novel)
Contact:
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Release Date:
11 avril 1956 (USA) suite
Accroche:
PAST APACE AMBUSH...PAST TREACHERY'S SILKEN NET!...Five Dead Men Led Jim Slater Down a Trail of No Return! suite
Plot:
Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in. full summary | add synopsis
Avis des utilisateurs:
Learning Some Horrible Truths suite
US TV Schedule:
Sat. July 46:45 AMAMC   

Ensemble

  (Complete credited cast)

Richard Widmark ... Jim Slater

Donna Reed ... Karyl Orton
William Campbell ... Johnny Cool
John McIntire ... Jim Bonniwell
Barton MacLane ... Sgt. George Lake
Harry Morgan ... Tony Welker

Robert J. Wilke ... Jeff Welker
Jack Lambert ... Mike Benton
Roy Roberts ... Maj. Carson

Edward Platt ... Sheriff J.C. Marson (as Edward C. Platt)
Robert Foulk ... Sheriff John F. Olson

Phil Chambers ... Deputy Sheriff Dobbs
Gregg Barton ... Sleepy
Fred Graham ... Ned McCloud
Frank Chase ... Cassidy, Shotgun Rider
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Additional Details

Autre(s) titre(s):
Coup de fouet en retour (France) [fr]
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Durée:
84 min
Pays:
USA
Langue:
Anglais
Couleur:
Couleur (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.00 : 1 suite
Son:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Emplacements De Pelliculage:
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Curiosités

Guillemet:
Sergeant George Lake: I figured you for a good soldier. I should have known better. Good soldiers never volunteer. suite

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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Learning Some Horrible Truths, 29 April 2006
7/10
Author: bkoganbing de Buffalo, New York

Donna Reed comes upon Richard Widmark at a place called Gila Valley where five men were massacred by Indians and one man escaped with $60,000.00. Three of the five men were identified, but none of the deceased is either Widmark's father or Reed's husband. Of course both are hunting for their respective relations.

The search yields some truths that neither one is willing to face up to. But both seek and find support and comfort in the other.

Backlash as a previous reviewer remarked is almost like a detective story set in the west. John Sturges gets some find performances out of his cast.

The two who stand out and steal the film from the stars are William Campbell as a punk gunfighter and John McIntire as the amoral outlaw leader in whose hands Widmark and Reed fall into at the end of their odyssey.

No studio backlots for this western, good location photography and a very nice plot distinguish this film. Catch it the next time AMC runs it.

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