Blood on the Arrow ** (1964, Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 11,090

‘Their justice was Blood on the Arrow (1964)!’

Director Sidney Salkow’s ordinary and over-familiar 1964 B-movie Blood on the Arrow stars Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer and Wendell Corey, and is only moderately entertaining.

Apaches besiege captured outlaw cowboy Wade Cooper (Roberston), spunky Nancy Mailer (Hyer), who saves the wounded Wade, and her coward husband Clint Mailer (Corey) in the desert, in this poorly written, artlessly delivered Western tale set in 1871 Arizona, though 1960s power and telephone lines can be seen and the Indians have saddles under their blankets.

Stars Hyer and Corey are starchy, the script is unattractively cynical and Salkow’s direction lacks care and attention to detail, though there are several smidgens of compensation in Robertson’s reliable and hard-working turn, Kenneth Peach’s striking Arizona photography in DeLuxe color, and appearances by Elisha Cook Jr, Ted de Corsia and Paul Mantee.

Also in the cast are Dandy Curran, Robert Carricart, Tom Reese, Boyce Wright, Michael Hammond, Leland Wainscott and John Matthews.

Blood on the Arrow is directed by Sidney Salkow, runs 91 minutes, is made by Leon Fromkess-Sam Firks Productions, is released by Allied Artists Pictures (1964) (US) and Warner-Pathé Distributors (1964) (UK), is written by Robert E Kent, based on a story by Robert E Kent and Mark Hanna, is shot in DeLuxe color by Kenneth Peach, is produced by Leon Fromkess and Sam Firks, is scored by Richard LaSalle, and designed by Herbert G Luft (production manager).

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