New Mexico ** (1951, Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Lloyd Corrigan, John Hoyt, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,320

‘ARROW-STREAKED ADVENTURE! BULLET-SCARRED STORY!!!’

Director Irving Reis’s interesting if historically inaccurate 1951 Western film New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as nice US Cavalry captain Hunt who fully understands the Native Americans’ understandable grievances, but when the chief, Acoma (Ted de Corsia), discovers that his son has been killed, the Indians hit the warpath.

Co-star Marilyn Maxwell plays Cherry, the saloon singer Ayres rescues from a stagecoach so that she can sing a couple of songs.

With comedy from Andy Devine as Sergeant Garrity and glowering from Raymond Burr as Private Anderson, this is a commendably busy little B-movie Western from Irving Allen Productions, written by Max Trell (original screenplay) and shot in colour (Anscocolor) by William E Snyder, with enough interest and excitement to sustain it throughout.

Also in the cast are Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Lloyd Corrigan, John Hoyt, Donald Buka, Robert Osterloh, Ian MacDonald, Ralph Volkie, William Tannen, Arthur M Loew Jr, Bob Duncan, Jack Kelly, Allen Mathews, Jack Briggs, Peter Price, Walter Greaza, Hans Conried, and Bud Ray.

Abraham Lincoln, played by an uncredited Hans Conried, is seen going to New Mexico just days before his assassination but he never went there. The plot revolves on promises made there in person by Lincoln to Chief Acoma.

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Raymond Burr plays Private Anderson.