Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
Acting
Lon Chaney Jr.'s weary dignity steals every scene.
Practical Effects
Real locations, real horses, real dust in every frame.
Direction
Springsteen squeezes maximum tension from minimal budget.
Director
R.G. Springsteen
Rory Calhoun
Jim Walker
Corinne Calvet
Janice MacKenzie
John Russell
Vance Buckner
Lon Chaney Jr.
Charlie Russell
Gene Evans
Jess Cooney
Richard Arlen
Captain Gannon
Robert H. Harris
Hoyt Taylor
Arthur Hunnicutt
Bill Gibson
DeForest Kelley
Toby Jack Saunders
George Chandler
Jace Asher
Jean Parker
Mrs. Hawks
Johnny Mack Brown
Sheriff Ben Hall
Don 'Red' Barry
Henry Belden
Abel Fernandez
Young Apache Chief
Robert Carricart
Chico Lopez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
R.G. Springsteen directed over 50 Westerns in his career, most forgotten except by diehard genre fans.
Released during the peak of revisionist Western interest, yet clings to traditional 'savage' Apache tropes despite its sympathetic framing of outlaws.
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