Tough, taut western, written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, from Thomas Flynn Saturday Evening Post serial. We slowly learn that James Stewart is an ex cavalry Captain looking for whoever's responsible for selling repeating rifles to the Apache, who used them to kill his brother. He immediately runs into sadistic Alex Nicol (who shoots his mules), his father Donald Crisp and cousin Arthur Kennedy (Peyton Place, A Summer Place), along with Cathy O'Donnell (They Live By Night).
A Columbia picture, shot by Charles Lang in CinemaScope in New Mexico and scored by George Duning.
Memorably nasty scene in which Nicol shoots Stewart's hand, made all the more so by Stewart's incredible acting - he makes you really feel it.
In an interesting note of balance, there's a reference to a different tribe of peaceful, cave-dwelling Indians - "They're not all bad".
With Aline MacMahon and Jack Elam.
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