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5/10
Apache and babies and crooks!
mark.waltz4 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Eilene Janssen wants to marry Gary Murray, but his past won't let him go so after a fight with her pa, they set off to elope and end up at the home of a friendly Mexican family which soon results in marriage. But when they head off to see friends, they find that the entire family has been slaughtered by a group of Apaches except a newborn baby which they decided take to the closest living relative. Unfortunately, they are interrupted by Bandits and that leads to a confrontation with attacking Apaches. Boy, does their honeymoon leave them with their hands full! The only thing keeping one of the bandits from raping her is the head of the gsng, Brian Donlevy. It's an obvious case of "Ten Little Indians" leading to "And Then there Were None" and the fortunate arrival of sheriff Jay C. Flippen.

A fast-moving Western that doesn't tax the brain and is fortunately not lengthy either. There are far too many little plot movements in the short running time of 75 minutes with little arcs taking the two leads to various locations and dealing with various dangers. There's not much really going on character-wise, but it's easy to root for these two young people. Not really great parts for a veteran actors Donlevy and Flippen, just a solid no nonsense little programmer that has you in and out, and easily forgotten once you've moved on to the next part of the double bill which this was obviously one of.
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A very acceptable little western.
searchanddestroy-112 July 2009
It s always interesting to discover an Edward Bernds film. This director was an eclectic one: thrillers - CALLING HOMICIDE - sci-fi - WORLD WITHOUT END, SPACE MASTER X7, RETURN OF THE FLY - and westerns, such as this one and a bunch of many others. And I won't talk about THREE ST0OGES and BOWERY KIDS features...

This little flick is not very unusual, I admit. The topic is very predictable, but efficiently made. A young man is involved against his will with a gang of bank robbers and is then pursued by a posse and the outlaws themselves. And our lead has his girl with him, of course.

Good guy vs bad ones. Nothing more. But, as I told before, you can easily watch it without boredom. And Brian Donlevy in the gang leader character is worthwhile for the whole picture.

What else could we ask for? It's a B movie, after all.
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4/10
Babies make everyone sentimental
bkoganbing25 September 2013
Escape From Red Rock finds young Gary Murray having a lot of trouble in his town of Red Rock with his brother Rick Vallin riding with a gang of outlaws led by Brian Donlevy. He won't believe it but when Donlevy and gang come calling looking for a refuge with a badly wounded Vallin, Gary finds out the truth all right.

They get him involved with their next heist which is in Red Rock with a promise of medical help for Vallin. Well Vallin dies, Myron Healey as one of the gang shoots a woman in the getaway and Murray's soon on the run with fiancé Eilene Janssen.

In a plot gambit from a much better western Four Faces West the gang finds Murray and Janssen hold up in a cabin recently raided by Apaches with an infant girl left alive. After that tough outlaw Donlevy goes all sentimental.

The inevitable results happen, but this was so much better done by Joel McCrea and Frances Dee in Four Faces West. That was also a B production but a lot of care was taken with that. This one was decent enough, but done on the cheap.
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