A 75-minute siege where everyone's sweaty, everyone's lying, and the arrows have opinions.
Lawmen and their captured gunrunners take refuge at a deserted mission to fend off attacking Indians. Western.
Practical Effects
Real location shooting in Mexico gives sweaty authenticity.
Acting
Dane Clark's Captain Ramón simmers with barely contained rage.
Director
Louis King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in Churubusco, Mexico using actual Mexican actors in supporting roles—unusual for 1950s Hollywood Westerns, though they're mostly cannon fodder.
The Yaqui Wars were real, bloody conflicts in Sonora—this film reduces decades of indigenous resistance to 'screaming arrows attacking white guys.' Louis King previously directed The Bravados, so he knew better and did this anyway.
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