PamelaShort Well the best this highly fictionalized film can boast about, is the beautiful scenery, and that includes Alan Ladd and shapely Shelley Winters. If you over look the story flaws, you can come up with an action filled western. Set in 1877, Alan Ladd has been brought up by the Cree and becomes a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. He tries very hard to prevent the Cree allying with post-Little Big Horn Sioux. Ladd has a brother played by Jay Silverheels, who sides with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Robert Benton plays an insensitive British RCMP officer with whom Ladd mutinies against and leads a party to safety. In the group is saloon gal Shelley Winters, being accompanied by U.S Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, who is taking her to Montanna to stand trial for murder. Add some fighting action as the Sioux attack a lot, and there's even a canoe chase, that still does not rescue this film. But the mounties always get their man, in this case Ladd gets the the buxom saloon gal Winters. If you are a Alan Ladd fan, it could be a very enjoyable film for you to watch.

benxbox I've watched the movie several times and thought it was entertaining. in 1954 movies were entertainment, i don't know of any movie let alone one from 1954 that is historically correct. westerns among other movies in this period were horrible when it came to correctness. but they are amusing to watch and i found this one entertaining. i don't know whats correct or not in the movie but i've watched it several times. if there are no mountains in Saskatchewan who cares at least the movie has them and in vista vision. Alan Ladd does a good job and so does Shelly Winters, now there was a lot of people i didn't know who could use some acting skills but the movie turned out alright.

sostitanic26 Who ever wrote this scipt apparenly was never in The Canadian West. I live in Manitoba and have traveled many times to the West Coast I have never yet seen a mountain in Saskatchewan. We never had any sort of trouble with the Sioux when they came into Canada and certanly no N.W.W.P. constable would allow a Canadian never mind an American shoot an indian in the back. And the Costumes terrible, the Mounties wore Pill Box Hats I think untill about 1919 when they became the R.C.M.P.And th music is the march past of the royal 22 regement Vive la Canadienne and certanly would not have been known out west.All in all a lousey movie about the Canadian west, very little truth.

slaskey Interesting movie showing the RCMP as they used to be - protectors of all peoples and unbiased towards our hosts the native american indians. Shows how the prevelent attitudes in America and Canada towards Indians have differed, and accurately portrays why the Indian Wars in the US west did not cross the border into Canada. However I do wish that the Canadian attitude showed here in the alberta sask. frontier were more prevalent in the more civilized MANITOBA area. May have avoided the METIS crisis