Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Bruce Grilikhes (bcgme) One of my favorite westerns, really for the cast, as you have great character actors who really believed in the westerns of yesteryear. They felt like they were the cowboys and cowgirls, and riding the horses and shooting the guns was more natural to them, then having to spend 3 months training with arms specialists. I also like the screenplay, but there I am prejudice as it was written by my father, Michel M. Grilikhes, who loved westerns also. Its very hard to see James Garner in a western movie and not remember him in his giant role on television as Bret Maverick on Maverick, If my memory is correct I think he lasted for 2 or 3 years, then had a fight for more money lost and moved on, too bad because the show really turned into his show, not the Brothers Maverick show. I don't think as a child I missed an episode.Another cast member was Sidney Poitier, not with a giant part but he was a giant actor at this time already with an Academy award in his pocket and many nominations and great roles like Porgy and Bess. Actually, he was nominated for Top Male Action Performance for Duel at DiabloThe film was shot in the beautiful state of Utah with some of the most wonderful scenery in the world, perfect for the frontier days, as thats where the Mormons traveled through, some staying and some continuing on their wagon train! Great all round film!

dougdoepke What terrific production values—that trek across a hellishly barren Utah desert had me off the couch, running for a water pitcher. And catch all those cavalrymen, Indians, and wild horses, enough for at least ten more westerns. Then there's the great James Garner to headline, along with a spiffy Sidney Poitier. So, why isn't this a top-notch horse opera, given such promising prospects.For one thing, there's about ten sub-plots too many. Heck, just the ordeal across the desert should be enough for most westerns without over-crowding the storyline. Sure, the script is making a good point about racism with Ellen's half-Indian baby. But do we need the soap opera sub-plot with husband Dennis Weaver that's mainly a distraction. Then there's Poitier showing it wasn't just white guys who won the west. And, of course, the screenplay has to carve out a large enough role for a second headliner. Add to that Garner's search for whoever scalped his wife that is sort of tacked on at the end, and we've got enough plot material for three more features.Sure, the movie's heart is in the right place. But messages are one thing, while merging them into a fluid narrative is another, and here the sub-plots add to the general problem of too much storyline clutter. The root of the problem, I expect, was hiring too many name stars, even if Travers and Andersson are known mainly to foreign audiences. Speaking of the cast, Garner's unusual skills are largely wasted in a role any number of imposing presences like Clint Walker could have easily handled.And I never thought it would happen, but by about the twentieth skirmish across the desert, I actually got a little bored with all the repetitive stunts and endless shooting. 'More', it seems, is not always better, and I suspect the lesson is there can be too much action even in an action movie.Anyway, I don't want to simply dismiss the movie because of its excesses since there are also a number of good touches (Chata gets some respect as a leader of his people, even though we see him as cruel), along with the generous production values. I'm just sorry the movie doesn't succeed better given its praiseworthy side.

ma-cortes This exceptionally hard picture deals about Jess (James Garner) who frees Ellen (Bibi Andersson)from Indians, she's married to mean trader (Dennis Weaver). Meanwhile lieutenant McAllister (Bill Travers) along with Toller (Sidney Poitier) are ordered transport ammunition throughout Apache territory where ravages an Indian chief named Chata (John Hoyt). Jess seeks revenge on the man who murdered and scalped his Indian wife. Then Ellen mysteriously flees again to unite them.This violent Western and hard on racial themes is full of noisy action, thrills , chills and results to be quite entertaining. The gratuitous violence and tortures brought worldwide queues and much criticism in the newspapers, though Nelson declared that it was utterly necessary. However it was severely cut in some countries. Good duo protagonist as James Garner and Sidney Poitier, director's usual. Appears uncredited Richard Farnsworth and the filmmaker Ralph Nelson as Colonel Foster. Rare and non appropriate score for an Old West movie is composed by Hefty. Stark and atmospheric cinematography by Charles Wheeler. The motion picture is well directed by Ralph Nelson. There were no half measures in this filmmaker. He would make sentimental movies or violent and gore films . Failure alternated with hits through the 1960s, though Nelson's direction was more than successful in ¨Lilies of the field¨with invaluable help of Sidney Poitier who won an Oscar as an African-American helping a group of German nuns to build a chapel. And of course his greatest success ¨Soldier Blue¨, also with cruel massacres and and blood fountained all over the screen. In the 7os Nelson went on to making strong movies , however, his films themselves were doing less successful at the Box office , numerous of those being barely seen outside US . As a violent Zapata Western titled ¨Wrath of God¨ with Robert Mitchum, as ¨Tick..Tick..Tick¨ in which the racial tensions arise when a black man being elected sheriff, ¨ The Wilby conspiracy¨ about the apartheid and again with Poitier and a Sci-fi movie titled ¨Embryo¨with Rock Hudson. Rating : Acceptable Western , Poitier fans will enjoy their idol.

cseon The Military Adviser - if they had one - either wasn't listened to, or else he did not provide accurate advice. In the first place, the Cavalry officer is wearing incorrect Shoulder Boards - they did not have the proper frame that is standard on US Shoulder Boards - and they didn't have his Lieutenant Bars mounted. Each board should have two Lieutenant Bars - one at the front edge and the other at the back edge.Next of all, the bugler didn't know his calls at all - he just put out a lot of noise, with a few calls approaching correctness but never achieving it.The uniform the cavalrymen are all wearing is a mix of early post-civil war and late post-civil war. The Lieutennant is wearing a double Breasted shirt which is early post Civil War, while everything else he is wearing is from a much later period. Since it is impossible to know if he is a First or Second Lieutenant since he is wearing no bars, it is impossible to know if he is wearing the shirt because he purchased one when he first joined up (1st Lieutenant)(Officers buy their uniform items), or is wearing one because the Wardrobe person got the uniform wrong (2nd Lieutenant). The hat is definitely late 1800's. Early post-civil war cavalry officers still wore the Kepi.The collar of the shirts on the soldiers is an Attached Collar - as is the collar on everyone else. Attached collars did NOT become common until the 20th Century.