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If you like Heston, you need to see this movie.
I'm used to seeing Charlton Heston in Biblical epic type movies like "Ben-Her" and "The Ten Commandments" so I was fascinated to see how he faired in Westerns like "The Big Country" and "Arrowhead." One of the challenges in some of the Heston films is finding an actor to play the villain who is as strong an actor as Heston and in "Arrowhead" they hit the target by casting Jack Palance as Toriano. <
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>Strong actors and a compelling story about the benefits of knowing your enemies' inner-workings is what makes this movie very entertaining. <
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>I felt it was important to watch because the story is based on some true historical events even though the characters' names are fictitious. The hate and cynicism of Heston's character makes him a less sympathetic protagonist but the story unfolds with a great ending, if I can say that with out being a spoiler.

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A Fairly Decent 1950's Western with Some Rising Stars
This is what you'd call an "action oater," your typical Sunday afternoon western. It's nowhere close to being a classic, but for what it is, it's not bad: the U.S. Cavalry vs. the Apaches. That's the plot, about as simple as it gets. What makes this movie worth watching is that you get the chance to see some up and coming stars early in their careers. Heston, in one of his first starring roles, plays Ed Bannon, a cavalry scout with a grudge against the Apaches and just about everybody else. He's not a terribly likeable character here, but you can see the beginnings of the Heston persona. A young Jack Palance plays the Apache chief Toriano with the kind of swarthy low key intensity for which he'd become famous. Brian Keith appears here as Captain Bill North, Bannon's rival for the hand of an actress who didn't make much of an impression and whose name I can't remember. He brings the same likeable competence to this role that he did to so many over the years. This movie, again, is your conventional western, but it's worth seeing to watch these guys early on in their careers.

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Army Scouts & Apache Warriors
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>This 1953 western movie is an excellent movie for its time and for all time. <
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>The script is based on W. R. Burnett's hardcover novel, ADOBE WALLS, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1953. The western novel by Burnett is loosely based on the life of Albert Seiber exemplar frontiersman and U.S. Army Scout in Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars of the 1880s. Much of the happenings are true to the time and true also to Al Seiber's life. <
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>Whether one cares for this movie or not, and judging by the first two reviews here they don't, any film of historical background is noteworthy. While it is true the film takes much dramatic license in many ways, if one reads on the west these items are easily spotted and do not get in the way of enjoying the movie. <
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>The setting of the movie is realistic and the use of old Fort Davis adds an aura of authenticity to the location shots. It was acceptable in those 1950 days to have non-Indians portray Indians, and at times Hollywood dared to change history. But in many respects true lore comes through in this movie, for example, the Ghost dance with its expectation of a 'messiah' to lead in the extermination of the white man, and dancing to make the Indians impervious to bullets, and the attempt to dance back the bison and the good times, all have their basis in historical fact. <
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>The plot also involves double dealing by some Apache Scouts, and while most were very trustworthy, a few were not and some ending up being hung. The Apache Kid turned renegade and was able to elude capture, with no white ever knowing how he ended up. Even the attempt to relocate the Apache out of the territory to Florida did in fact occur. So while there is much fiction in this movie, there is also much fact. <
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>If one has some knowledge of the west, or just plain enjoys an interesting movie of the west, the viewer should do 'ok' watching it. <
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>But again, as evidenced by the first two reviews here, a movie sometimes just doesn't meet everyone's expectations.