The Indian Fighter

Name: The Indian Fighter
Released: 1955
Rating: 48.69
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Frank Cady, Walter Matthau, Lon Chaney Jr., Diana Douglas

1955

Western

1h 28m

Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... Unscrupulous whisky traders are after the gold on Indian land. Hawks averts serious bloodshed by convincing Red Cloud to make a treaty... Hawks leads an Oregon-bound wagon train through Indian territory. When he slips away to see the chief's daughter, trouble between braves and whisky traders flares up anew, putting the wagon train and the nearby fort in peril... (imdb)

The Indian Fighter

1955

Western

1h 28m

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mrarn

Rated 29 Dec 2013

"The Indian Fighter" was filmed in Cinemascope and several of the scenes were created to take advantage of it. Walter Matthau does a good job playing the greedy trouble maker. Diana Douglas (Kirk Douglas's ex wife) plays the wagon train widow that tries to marry the Kirk Douglas character. Overall an average film, but if you like westerns it's worth watching.

Rated 29 Dec 2013

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jodamico

Rated 19 Sep 2012

De Toth paints a west in conflict not, as its often told, between a superior (US) and an inferior (Indian) military force, but between a superior economic force (US) and a superior military force (Indian). Kirk Douglas is his usual charming self, but Elisha Cook Jr steals the show here. What a lovely character he created. The Achille's heel, though, is the lame cinematography. The lack of powerful imagery little by little drags this down from minor classic to also-ran.

Rated 19 Sep 2012

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billkerwin

Rated 19 Dec 2010

Douglas is just okay and Martinelli is miscast (Indian princess with Italian accent) in this so-so scripted Western. Yet the twilight photography of the Pacific Northwest (strangely cold for Cinemascope), the viciousness of Matthau, and De Toth's flair for making peace-treaty pageantry inspiring, wagon train life realistic, and violence sudden and terrible, make this memorable. Also note: Elisha Cook, Jr. as an early poet of the camera, and Indians who--for once--understand military strategy.

Rated 19 Dec 2010

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