Standard Indian Western dealing with a historical character the Apache leader Red Sleeves or Mangas Coloradas who along with Cochise and Jeronimo fought ferociously against the white men. This concerns Mangas Coloradas , Lex Barker , who takes a Mexican woman , Joan Taylor , from a man who mistreated her . Meanwhile , settlers and mean prospectors break the fragile peace . Mangas Coloradas has a good friend to Fargo : Ben Johnson, who equally falls in love for the Mexican Riva : Joan Taylor, then their friendship is hardly tested. While some settler assaults and Indian raids take place. As Red Sleeves and other Apaches execute uprising against invaders and raid miners, then President Abraham Lincoln transfers troops to Fort Sumter. It is is up to Fargo to avoid a bloody and long war. The deadliest thunder that ever rolled across the west !
This is a short budget film that eventually sustains some interest for quite a while , regarding the strong fighting between the Apache tribe , Mimbreños, with leader Mangas Coloradas against the USA Cavalry , being unaccurate historically the happenings developed in the movie . As it is a highly fictionalized account of Mangas Coloradas's life , paced in fits and starts. Trio starring : Lex Barker , Joan Taylor , Ben Johnson become involved into a triangular love story , being accompanied by a so-so support cast, such as : Richard Cutting , John Pickard , John Colicos , Larry Chance and brief appearance uncredited by recently deceased Stuart Whitman .
It contains an atmospheric cinematography by William Margulies , though being really necessary a perfect remastering because of the film copy is worn-out .And thrilling, evocative musical score by Lex Baxter , this composer was regular in Roger Corman films and Samuel Z Arkoff , James H Nicholson's American International Pictures . Being produced in little budget by Howard Koch for United Artists . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Reginald Le Borg . He was a craftsman who directed several films with no much success, such as : The eyes of Annie Jones, The Black Sleep, Sins of Jezabel, The Flanagan Boy , G.I. Jane , The Dalton girls, , Wyoming Mail , Troublemakers , Joe Palooka , Philo Vance , San Diego I love you , Destiny , Jungle woman ,Port Said , Fall Guy , being his big hit : Diary of a Madman with Vincent Price . He went on directing episodes of TV series as Bronco, Maverick, The Alaskans , Sugarfoot , Bourbon Street , Death Valley Days , Wire Service , among others . Rating 4.5/10 .Mediocre , a routine , run-of-the-mill Western with limited interest , only for Western hardcore aficionados .
