Just four years after making this movie Andre De Toth goes on to make Day Of The Outlaw with Robert Ryan and Burl Ives which was a much better film than this one. Kirk Douglas plays a man called the Indian fighter but has a better relationship with the Indians than his name might suggest. The Indians just want to be left alone and don't want any white men like Walter Matthau and Lon Chaney Jr. selling whiskey for gold to any Indians. Matthau is caught by the Indians and almost killed but Douglas fights one of the leaders to save him. Douglas winds up falling in love with an Indian played by Elsa Martinelli and this is looked down upon. The movie goes by pretty quickly at 88 minutes and it does have a good cast that also has Alan Hale Jr. and Elisha Cook Jr.
Review of The Indian Fighter
