Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.
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- TriviaJohn Lund reported that Linda Darnell drank heavily during the shooting of the picture, although it never posed any problem during working hours. Every day at noon, she drank vodka and usually ate something with onions.
- GoofsAfter the 'Mile High' stagecoach enters the town with the dead passengers aboard, one of the horses lies dead. It then mysteriously disappears. (NOTE: Four minutes later in screen time, when the stagecoach leaves town, John Banner's horse has already replaced the dead one which has evidently been moved out of the way).
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Sen. Blakely: In a small way, I'm trying to unite our people: the Indians and the white.
Amy Clarke: I hope your scalp is glued on tight. Have you ever met an Indian face to face?
Sen. Blakely: Only in the literary sense. You see, I happen to be a student of anthropology.
Amy Clarke: So was General Custer. It didn't help him much.
- ConnectionsFeatured in That's Action (1977)
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The left handed gun of Dale Robertson
A cracking start to this 1956 western which unfortunately tends to slow up towards the end. I loved watching Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie in Well Fargo on TV with his quick draw left handed gun belt, when I was a kid. I notice one reviewer here says 'No Major Stars' which made me smile a bit, as I imagine the author is from a more recent generation of film and TV fans. Linda Darnell was certainly a major star in the 1940's in films like My Darling Clementine and both Dale Robertson and Ward Bond were major TV western stars in the 1950's/60's in Wells Fargo as mentioned and Wagon Train, in fact their stars grew after this film Dakota Incident was made in 1956. Sadly Linda Darnell died in a house fire in 1965 at the young age of 41. As I said earlier, the film opens with a terrific scene involving three outlaws who fall out which climaxes in a street gunfight, obviously with that famous left handed gun being the winner. All this in the first half hour, after which the story involves a coach being pulled into town with all the occupants dead due to an Indian attack. Several residents want a ride on the coach to Laramie and insist on going so our hero, Robertson takes on the task. There follows more Indian attacks and double crossing until just a handful of characters are left alive, and regrettably the picture ends with a rather predictable toned down ending which is rather disappointing for a film that started out so promising. If only the second half had lived up to the first I would have recommended it more highly.
- Maverick1962
- Nov 10, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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