Oklahoma Territory

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
This movie was first released in 1959(2011), in widescreen 1.85.1, B/W and runs 67 minutes. The sound and picture quality are very good. There are no extras on this DVD. The film starts in 1872, when Oklahoma Territory belonged to 5 Indian tribes, living across the border with white man and divided by FORT SMITH. Temple Houston(BILL WILLIAMS)District Attorney, hears gunshots while riding his horse and on arrival finds Indians and Cowman in gun battle. He finds Cherokee Chief Buffalo Horn (TED-DE-CORSIA) there saying he and his braves were surprised by these gunmen. When Temple stops the fighting, he finds that the gunmen are legal posse come to arrest Buffalo Horn for the murder of Indian Commissioner, Alan Barbee. Buffalo Horn agrees to go with Temple, but denies murder. In Town, Larkan, who had actually killed Barbee, reports to his boss Bigelow (GRANT RICHARDS). Later Buffalo Horn's Daughter Ruth Red Hawk (GLORIA TALBOTT) and his son Running Cloud (X BRANDS), ride into town. Ruth...

Jeffrey Hunter - Where were you?
Another of those rare "Limited Edition" MGM DVD releases, of which I now have many, and none have so far let me down. An excellent B/W widescreen print, a cracking plot, (tho lacking in any mystery element), and a good western cast - Bill Williams being his usual sturdy self, Gloria Talbot as a (beautuful) Indian maid Was there any other kind? and Gloria was lovely if unusual in her looks, shame she never made it really big time). If ever there was a glorious piece of miscasting it's Ted De Corsia as an Indian chief! Admittedly not as excrutiating as his perf in "Mohawk" which has to be seen to be believed, but he is pretty bad here. Darn it - he was New York street gangster -! There are good perfs from Walters Baldwin and Sande, and strangely unbilled John Cliff who is good (perhaps in the role De Corsia should have had) in an important part - why no billing? Also Kenne Duncan, Charlie Stevens and a very (very) brief cough and a spit from Boyd Morgan. Plenty of action, lots of...



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