61% (1) Untamed Frontier 78 min, APPROVED, [Western] [Hugo Fregonese] [16 Jan 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Scott Brady, Shelley Winters, Suzan Ball
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams (screenplay), John Bagni (screenplay), Gwen Bagni (screenplay), Polly James (additional dialogue), Houston Branch (story), Eugenia Night (story)
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Plot: The Denbow family hope to freeze out homesteaders by denying access across their land; but to evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries the only witness, Jane, who's conveniently in love with him, but favors the settlers. When Glenn goes back to his blackmailing old flame Lottie, a warm regard develops between Jane and cousin Kirk Denbow. Things come to a head when an impending range war coincides with a rustling foray.
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61% (1) Chief Crazy Horse 86 min, Approved, [Biography, Western] [George Sherman] [01 Apr 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: John Lund, Ray Danton, Suzan Ball, Victor Mature
Writer: Franklin Coen (screenplay), Gerald Drayson Adams (screenplay), Gerald Drayson Adams (story)
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Plot: When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.
Rotten Tomatoes: Reviled in his lifetime as a lunatic insurrectionist, Chief Crazy Horse has in recent years emerged as a Native American hero. In this off-beat western, unusual for its time in that it sympathetically presented the Native American viewpoint, Victor Mature plays the misunderstood Sioux leader while the treaty-breaking villain General Crook is played by James Millican (who had earlier portrayed an equally unsympathetic General Custer in Warpath). The battle of the Little Big Horn is staged with less bravura but more authenticity than in 1941's They Died With Their Boots On (a wildly inaccurate pro-Custer opus). Chief Crazy Horse falters only in its verbose dialogue sequences, wherein the native tongue of the Sioux seems to be Fluent Cliche.
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59% (1) East of Sumatra 82 min, APPROVED, [Adventure] [Budd Boetticher] [23 Sep 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Suzan Ball
Writer: Louis L'Amour (story), Jack Natteford (story), Frank Gill Jr.
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Plot: Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss! Are romantic triangles more deadly than poisoned darts?
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58% (1) War Arrow 78 min, APPROVED, [Romance, War, Western] [George Sherman] [06 Jan 1954]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews
Actors: Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Maureen O'Hara, Suzan Ball
Writer: John Michael Hayes
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Plot: Major Howell Brady and two non-coms are assigned to go to Indian territory and recruit peaceful Seminoles relocated from Florida to aid the army in fighting the larger, rampaging Kiowa tribe. Brady promises them better land than the subsistence reservation they have been assigned to. Maygro, their chief, although initially reluctant, finally agrees for the good of his people. However, Brady's superior, Col. Jackson Meade, is hostile to the idea and distrusts having Indians as allies. Beautiful widow Elaine Corwin, proves a pleasant distraction for Brady although her husband, a unrepentant Confederate whose body was never found, may still be alive and leading the savage Kiowas against the hated Yankees.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this western, an ingenious Army recruiter convinces Seminole Indians to join the fight against the troublesome Kiowas. Though the recruiter's colleagues think he is mad to trust them, he continues with his plan. Soon the Kiowas are vanquished and the recruiter ends up getting his dream girl.
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55% (1) City Beneath the Sea 87 min, PASSED, [Action, Adventure, Drama] [Budd Boetticher] [11 Mar 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, External Reviews
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Mala Powers, Robert Ryan, Suzan Ball
Writer: Harry E. Rieseberg (book), Jack Harvey (screenplay), Ramon Romero (screenplay)
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Plot: Divers Brad and Tony arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the "Lady Luck," sunk with all hands and a million in gold. They charter a boat, "American Beauty," skippered by attractive Terry McBride, but cannot find the ship. But there's more to the "Lady Luck" than meets the eye, and undersea skullduggery forms a counterpoint to Brad's romance with Terry, and Tony's with cabaret singer Venita.
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