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This basic outdoor feature has a rousing climax, good performances and beautifully photographed outdoor values. Glenn Ford and Victor Jory are particularly good in the rugged scenes and the former's performance helps to carry things during some midway story slowness.

Plot is hung on the supposed escape of one man (Ford) from the Alamo before its valiant defenders fell to Santa Ana's forces. He finds his own and the other families wiped out by renegades posing as Mexican soldiers, is branded a coward for deserting the fort, and spends the rest of the footage proving himself and getting revenge on Jory for his assault against the families of the Alamo heroes.

High spot of the footage is the climactic battle between good and evil, with Ford protecting a wagon train against Jory's gang of renegades. It's a sequence that Budd Boetticher's direction fills with violent, but believeable, action. Plotting in the script is generally good and was based on a story by Niven Busch and Oliver Crawford.

Julie Adams is gracious as a girl who helps Ford. Chill Wills is a one-armed pioneer editor stubborn about accepting the hero, as is Hugh O'Brian, army lieutenant.

3 STARS OUT OF 5

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yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider

the godfather | the godfather part ii
marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino
laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly
olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang
jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield
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