The Stand at Apache River * (1953, Stephen McNally, Julie Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Hugh O’Brian, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 13,141

The Stand at Apache River (1953, Julie Adams).

‘Apache terror strikes!’ Universal Pictures’ 1953 Technicolor Western film The Stand at Apache River stars Stephen McNally, Julie Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Hugh O’Brian, and Jack Kelly.

‘Apache terror strikes!’

Director Lee Sholem’s 1953 Universal Pictures Western film The Stand at Apache River is based on Robert J Hogan’s novel Apache Landings, and stars Stephen McNally, Julie Adams, Hugh Marlowe, Hugh O’Brian, and Jack Kelly.

The Apaches go on the warpath yet again and besiege prisoner-escort Sheriff Lane Dakota (Stephen McNally), glamorous Valerie Kendrick (Julie Adams), bigoted Colonel Morsby (Hugh Marlowe) and co at a remote outpost stagecoach station, Apache River.

Dakota captures wounded robbery-murder suspect Greiner (Russell Johnson) and they spend the night with some other travellers, but in the morning a band of apparently peaceful renegade Apaches turn up. Colonel Morsby’s view is ‘Nothing destroys the Apache but death.’

There’s little action, pace or excitement in this mundane, mediocre oater with a predictable course and a tepid happy ending. But there is a good cast and excellent Technicolor photography by Charles P Boyle.

Also in the cast are Jaclynne Greene, Russell Johnson, Edgar Barrier, Forrest Lewis, Clem Fuller, and Henry Wills.

Runtime: 77 minutes.

Russell Johnson (1924-2014).

Hugh O’Brian (1925-2016).

Julie Adams (1926-2019).

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