- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tony Sloman
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2 out of 5
In the same year that Gary Cooper won an Oscar for High Noon he also starred in this perfunctory Warner Bros western. Directed with some style by House of Wax's Andre De Toth, this feature still resembles a Randolph Scott programme filler, wherein Cooper instead of Scott rides with a batch of second-string actors to infiltrate a gang. Cooper is a little too old for this kind of lark and the support cast really isn't worthy of him, but there's a certain pleasure to be gained from watching a great star at work.
Plot Summary
A Union officer is given a fake court martial and discharged so he can infiltrate a Confederate outpost and covertly identify the renegade Union soldiers supplying the enemy with firearms and horses. American Civil War Western adventure, starring Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter and Lon Chaney Jr.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Major "Lex" Kearney
- Gary Cooper
- Erin Kearney
- Phyllis Thaxter
- Austin McCool
- David Brian
- Lt Col Hudson
- Paul Kelly (1)
- Captain Tennick
- Philip Carey
- Elm
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Matthew Quint
- James Millican
- Olie Larsen
- Martin Milner
- Sergeant Snow
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
- Lieutenant Evans
- Jerry O'Sullivan
Crew
- Director
- Andre De Toth
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