The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

George Sherman

Guionista:

Gerald Drayson Adams (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

abril 1952 (USA)

Género:

Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

A GREAT INDIAN LOVE -- AND A GREATER HATE! (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Bascom | Sequel | Beautiful Woman | Apache

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good Western, well-photographed

Reparto

John Lund	...	Maj. Jim Colton
Jeff Chandler	...	Cochise
Beverly Tyler	...	Mary Kearney
Bruce Cowling	...	Neil Baylor
Susan Cabot	...	Nono
John Hudson	...	Lt. George Bascom
James Best	...	Cpl. Hassett
Regis Toomey	...	Dr. Carter
Richard Egan	...	Sgt. Reuben Bernard
Hugh O'Brian	...	Lt. Robert Harley
Gregg Palmer	...	Joe Bent (as Palmer Lee)
William Reynolds	...	Lem Bent
Jay Silverheels	...	Geronimo
Tommy Cook	...	Little Elk
Jack Elam	...	Mescal Jack

Duración:

85 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA

Compañía:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Conexiones de Película:

Seguido por Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

Good Western, well-photographed

This is a good cavalry Western, with a respectable cast and well photographed. John Lund may have got top billing, but Jeff Chandler has the better screen presence, and possibly Richard Egan too.

It contains a couple of common minor flaws of Westerns of the 1950s: the uniforms and carbines relate more to the 1870s than the early Civil War period, and Susan Cabot is yet another white American actor/actress who doesn't convince as a native American, especially compared with the "real Indian" women who briefly appear. Chandler is more convincing as Cochise,and complements well the Canadian Indian actor Jay Silverheels, best known as Tonto in the Lone Ranger series, where he always struck me as being a bit wooden; here he gets some dialogue and a couple of good fights (which he loses)) as Geronimo.

There's a suggestion of an instant romance between Lund and Beverly Tyler as the wagon-train survivor, but this is so feeble it might as well have been omitted.

The action scenes are well handled, especially the climatic battle in Apache Pass.