Reviews

This could have been a much better story and movie since it had the always reliable and likeable Joel MCCrea, but the movie gets bogged down with the romanticism between MCCrea and Maureen O' Hara. The special effects leave a lot to be desired. In one scene an arrow is horizontally shown hitting the inside of the wagon they are escaping in. Kind of hard when the Indians chasing them are behind them. When the wagon turns over the occupants not seen in previous scenes all pile out after it turns over and run to the other side to face the Indians. The other side would have had them facing nothing but rocks and clearly not the side from where the Indians were coming from. Lastly, in the scene showing the Indians burning crops and homes you can clearly see Mohawk Indians doing it, This was file footage from the movie Drums Along The Mohawk. Wellman could have done a much better job of special effects, as it clearly hurt the movie.

Wow, I didn't think anyone would remember Pete from Fury, " who cut his teeth out of branding iron." Fury was seen on Sat morning tv which starred Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond, and Fury!

I had to turn this off after a few minutes, as the scenery was so phony. In one scene a top gunner is in his turret. It looked like he was in a plastic bubble with a fake plane underneath. That B-29 burning was an actual footage of one that crashed landed on Iwo Jima. Were we to believe it was a B-17? Even the airfield looked fake. The movie resembled the movie Twelve O'Clock High with a tough commanding officer and a cowardly pilot. If you remember the movie they were played by Gregory Peck and High Marlowe.

It just seemed so fake. The scenery did not give you a feeling it was Vietnam. That scene where they ambush the.VC with grenades was so ridiculous. There were 8-10 men tossing a single grenade, yet there must have been 20 explosions!