A decent and personable Western set in Colorado territory, better than you might expect , including the usual hail of arrows to the right of you and spears to he left to you , all of them hurled at the audience and here more inventively augmented by some spectacular Indian charges at Feather River . An ordinary Cavalry Western in which an officer is saddled with the risked assignment of rescue and steer a platoon through hostile Indian territory . Dealing with an exciting story involving Miles Archer (Guy Madison) along with sergeant Baker (Frank Lovejoy) and a group of soldiers (Dick Wesson , Onslow Stevens , Steve Brodie , Ron Hagerthy , Neville Brand , among others) are asked by the cavalry Major at Fort Bellows to aid in rescuing to two white women (both , Helen Westcott and Vera Miles prove more than mere objects in the tale) captured by the Cheyenne . They are rescued 5 years later , one by force (Vera Miles who has turned renegade and is not anxious to be rescued) due to about to marry a chief Thunder Hawk .
The film packs thrills , fights , noisy action , crossfire , Indian charges , and being enough entertaining . It's a medium budget film with comfortable actors , technicians , functional production values and pleasing results. It is a pretty fine picture that could become another western worthy of any anthology . Moving and action-packed Western with a simple , standard story that engages the viewer until the last scene when cavalry comes to the rescue in the nick of time by a stream called Feather River , dealing with an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory carried out by a squadron of Privates to rescue and escort two sisters kidnapped by Indians long time ago . Meanwhile , soldiers getting off shots into the surprising spectators as well as knives, arrows, lances and tomahawks all come flying at the audience . Screenline serves mainly as an excuse for non-stop Indian attacks . This was the first 3-D Western and one of the first CinemaScope movie of any kind from Warner Brothers , a studio very committed to the 3D process , and not forgetting the Panoramic shots that showed the new process off to its best effect , using Zeiss anamorphic lenses . Decent and pleasant traditional Western with professional direction and flawlessly acted by Guy Madison as Miles Archer and Frank Lovejoy as Sgt. Baker , both of whom make fortright leads . Guy Madison was one of the most popular Western stars at the time who performed this first 3D Western : ¨The charge of Feather River¨ along with ¨The command¨. Guy played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok in the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). Madison had his first major role in "Until the End of Time" a drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1946 to then changed in action roles , mainly series B westerns , get some successes with the series . He played Hickok on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in westerns. After the Hickok series ended Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe, where he became a popular star of Italian westerns and German adventure films , such as : ¨Duel at Rio Bravo¨ , ¨7 Winchester for a massacre¨ , ¨Bang bang Kid¨, ¨Five for revenge¨ , ¨Il figlio di Django¨ and ¨Reverend Colt¨ . Support cast is pretty well, full of gritty acting and giving splendidly fortright performances , notably from Frank Lovejoy who discourages a rattlesnake with tobacco , Onslow Stevens , James Brown , Dub Taylor , Ron Hagerthy , Steve Brodie , Ben Corbett , Lane Chandler and Dick Wesson who provides gritty humor , he is a nice comedian who should gone further in movies .
Beautifully and wonderfully filmed by cameraman Perveret Marley . Being filmed on location in Santa Clarita , Santa Ana River, Norco, Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park , Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California,California . It contains a stirring and adequate musical score by the classic composer Max Steiner . Max 's soundtrack skilfully underscores some the greatest action scenes ever filmed . Actually made with great drive by Hollywood craftsman Gordon Douglas , even though the script is ordinary and ¨deja vu¨ . Douglas directs some of the best action scenes he ever shot . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gordon Douglas , at his best . Gordon directed nearly 100 features and shorts, including five features alone that were released in 1950, and four more in 1951. He was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer . His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series . Graduating to features, Douglas stayed with comedies, directing Stan Lauren and Oliver Hardy . Douglas left Roach for RKO, for which he directed about a dozen films from 1942 to 1947, mostly routine programmers. He then went to Columbia for several years, but in 1950 he headed over to Warner Brothers, where he would stay for the next 15 years and where he would find his greatest successes . His westerns and crime dramas for Warners met with critical and financial success, and it was during this period that he made what is considered one of the classic sci-fi films of the era : Them (1954). Often used counter diving angles with camera, for instance when cars or wagons roll. He was an expert on adventures cinema as ¨Black arrow¨ , ¨Fortunes of Captain Blood¨ , both starred by Louis Hayward and Western , as he proved in the films starred by Clint Walker such as : ¨Fort Dobbs¨, ¨Yellowstone Kelly¨ , ¨Gold of seven Saints¨ , Gregory Peck as ¨Only the valiant¨ in similar plot to ¨Chuka¨ , Richard Boone as ¨Rio Conchos¨ considered the best , and on bandits legendary as ¨Doolins of Oklahoma¨ , ¨Great Missouri raid¨, among others. Rating : 6.5/10 .
The film packs thrills , fights , noisy action , crossfire , Indian charges , and being enough entertaining . It's a medium budget film with comfortable actors , technicians , functional production values and pleasing results. It is a pretty fine picture that could become another western worthy of any anthology . Moving and action-packed Western with a simple , standard story that engages the viewer until the last scene when cavalry comes to the rescue in the nick of time by a stream called Feather River , dealing with an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory carried out by a squadron of Privates to rescue and escort two sisters kidnapped by Indians long time ago . Meanwhile , soldiers getting off shots into the surprising spectators as well as knives, arrows, lances and tomahawks all come flying at the audience . Screenline serves mainly as an excuse for non-stop Indian attacks . This was the first 3-D Western and one of the first CinemaScope movie of any kind from Warner Brothers , a studio very committed to the 3D process , and not forgetting the Panoramic shots that showed the new process off to its best effect , using Zeiss anamorphic lenses . Decent and pleasant traditional Western with professional direction and flawlessly acted by Guy Madison as Miles Archer and Frank Lovejoy as Sgt. Baker , both of whom make fortright leads . Guy Madison was one of the most popular Western stars at the time who performed this first 3D Western : ¨The charge of Feather River¨ along with ¨The command¨. Guy played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok in the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). Madison had his first major role in "Until the End of Time" a drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1946 to then changed in action roles , mainly series B westerns , get some successes with the series . He played Hickok on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in westerns. After the Hickok series ended Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe, where he became a popular star of Italian westerns and German adventure films , such as : ¨Duel at Rio Bravo¨ , ¨7 Winchester for a massacre¨ , ¨Bang bang Kid¨, ¨Five for revenge¨ , ¨Il figlio di Django¨ and ¨Reverend Colt¨ . Support cast is pretty well, full of gritty acting and giving splendidly fortright performances , notably from Frank Lovejoy who discourages a rattlesnake with tobacco , Onslow Stevens , James Brown , Dub Taylor , Ron Hagerthy , Steve Brodie , Ben Corbett , Lane Chandler and Dick Wesson who provides gritty humor , he is a nice comedian who should gone further in movies .
Beautifully and wonderfully filmed by cameraman Perveret Marley . Being filmed on location in Santa Clarita , Santa Ana River, Norco, Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park , Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California,California . It contains a stirring and adequate musical score by the classic composer Max Steiner . Max 's soundtrack skilfully underscores some the greatest action scenes ever filmed . Actually made with great drive by Hollywood craftsman Gordon Douglas , even though the script is ordinary and ¨deja vu¨ . Douglas directs some of the best action scenes he ever shot . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gordon Douglas , at his best . Gordon directed nearly 100 features and shorts, including five features alone that were released in 1950, and four more in 1951. He was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer . His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series . Graduating to features, Douglas stayed with comedies, directing Stan Lauren and Oliver Hardy . Douglas left Roach for RKO, for which he directed about a dozen films from 1942 to 1947, mostly routine programmers. He then went to Columbia for several years, but in 1950 he headed over to Warner Brothers, where he would stay for the next 15 years and where he would find his greatest successes . His westerns and crime dramas for Warners met with critical and financial success, and it was during this period that he made what is considered one of the classic sci-fi films of the era : Them (1954). Often used counter diving angles with camera, for instance when cars or wagons roll. He was an expert on adventures cinema as ¨Black arrow¨ , ¨Fortunes of Captain Blood¨ , both starred by Louis Hayward and Western , as he proved in the films starred by Clint Walker such as : ¨Fort Dobbs¨, ¨Yellowstone Kelly¨ , ¨Gold of seven Saints¨ , Gregory Peck as ¨Only the valiant¨ in similar plot to ¨Chuka¨ , Richard Boone as ¨Rio Conchos¨ considered the best , and on bandits legendary as ¨Doolins of Oklahoma¨ , ¨Great Missouri raid¨, among others. Rating : 6.5/10 .