Thursday, March 10, 2011

Fort Bowie (1958)


United Artists
Directed by Howard W. Koch
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Encore)

Ben Johnson is a Cavalry officer sympathetic to the Indians. His new commander is a political appointee who would rather massacre Indians than talk to them. Johnson is also in the unusual role of lady killer, both the wife of his old CO and a local Indian girl can't keep their hands off him. The CO sends him on a dangerous mission in the hopes he gets killed and leaves his wife alone. The action is good, but the romantic melodrama frequently intrudes.

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