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7/10
The noble red man
bkoganbing2 August 2019
Charles Robinson who is of mixed racial parentage but who identifies with his Kiowa mother is fleeing a charge of killing four troopers and joins a cattle drive The Virginian is heading up from Shiloh to an army post. The officious and obnoxious sutler Henry Jones joins the drive.

But when Jones discovers Robinson is wanted he decides to cash in to his eternal regret. When we first meet Jones he's an annoyance. Gradually we learn what a bottom feeding sleaze he really is.

Robinson is an impressive figure as an ultimately tragic figure who won't change with the times. Robinson has some wonderful scenes with Tim Matheson..

This story will bring a tear to your eye.
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6/10
Preachy script for the actors
pfors-647-50149725 September 2013
Thick message drama would be a tough sit without Drury, McClure, earnest Tim Matheson and Charles Robinson as the brave with no battles to fight. Princeton grad Robinson gives a scrupulous performance that captures the spiritual essence of his character, and he even cuts a mean ceremonial dance. The rest of the actors labor under a coarse script that concocts a small western town populated almost exclusively by lynch-happy racists. Chipper Henry Jones is reduced to playing a crude heavy, and the normally capable Charles Aidman is insufferable as a windy barfly with no visible means of support who never runs out of whiskey money or hot air.
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