Massacre River (1949)
Massacre River (1949)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7400 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:18:00 | USA | Western
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7400 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:18:00 | USA | Western
The working title for this film was When a Man's a Man. The opening credits include the following written acknowledgment: "The exterior scenes of this motion picture were photographed thru the courtesy and cooperation of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Park Service and the Office of Indian Affairs."
Director: John Rawlins
Cast: Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun, Carole Mathews, Cathy Downs, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie, Art Baker, Iron Eyes Cody, Emory Parnell, Queenie Smith, Eddy Waller, James Bush, John Holland, Douglas Fowley, Harry Brown, Kermit Maynard, Gregg Barton, J.W. Cody, Franklyn Farnum, Sam Harris, Rory Mallinson, Harold Miller, Jason Robards Sr., Henry Wills
The Wachupi River winds through a wilderness of austere grandeur in the American West. But after years of bloodshed between white settlers and native Americans defending their ancestral lands, it has earned an ominous nickname: Massacre River. Before they were among TV’s early Western heroes for pint-sized baby boomers, Guy Madison (Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok) and Rory Calhoun (The Texan) teamed up in this atmospheric Western to play frontier soldiers stationed near the Wachupi.
Massacre River (1949)
Massacre River (1949)
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In this routine oater, Larry (Guy Madison) and Phil (Rory Calhoun) are officers in the Army stationed at a remote fort at the edge of Indian territory. The Indian chief (Iron Eyes Cody) represents the native inhabitants near the end of their fight with the white man; therefore, the fort and nearby town of Jackson are populated by mostly settlers and other civilians. Larry is engaged to Kitty (Cathy Downs), the daughter of the fort commander, and Kitty's brother Randy is the mild comedy relief. Although the film's poster promises some violent Army-Indian clashes, there is only one mildly good battle scene and a skirmish near the finale. The bulk of the movie is a leaden soap opera concerned with how Larry jilts Kitty after he falls in love with the hardened co-owner of Jackson's saloon (Carole Matthews). This sets both Phil and Randy against Larry. The divisions this causes leads the death and tragedy in a "character-driven" western which, despite good performances from Madison and Matthews, strains to make us believe that their characters have any sort of believable future together.
Massacre River (1949)
Massacre River (1949)
