Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.
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Philip Carey
- Wade Harper
- (as Phil Carey)
Bill Catching
- Anderson
- (uncredited)
Cecil Combs
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Frank Fenton
- Army Captain
- (uncredited)
Bernie Gozier
- Warrior
- (uncredited)
Kansas Moehring
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
- Sgt. Phillips
- (uncredited)
Guy Teague
- Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Glenn Thompson
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
Nick Thompson
- Medicine Man
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFort Kearny, where the 1st Nebraska Cavalry troops are stationed in the movie, was an actual U.S. army post located on the south bank of the Platte River. It is inactive, but still stands and is a Nebraska state historical park. A half-mile to the east is Fort Kearny State Recreation Area, which contains a small lake and numerous camping sites.
- GoofsA motor, likely a generator, is audible during the dialogue of several scenes and is particularly noticeable at six minutes into the film. Motors could not have been a natural background noise in Nebraska during the 1860's.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pushover (1954)
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Comanche Justice
A whole group of competent B film players get cast in The Nebraskan which as a film might pass muster for an episode on a television western. It's one of the most contrived pieces of film making I've ever seen.
First we have some Comanche politics where Maurice Jara is accused of murdering the old chief in a palace coup d'etat. His accuser is Jay Silverheels who becomes the new chief. Things are really bad though when Jara decides white man's justice is better so his friend, army scout Philip Carey brings him in.
But when they lock him in the army guard house, another prisoner there, Lee Van Cleef has other ideas. He's a trooper accused of murder and he busts out together with Jara.
Then we got passengers on a stage Richard Webb and Robert Haynes, husband and wife, who get rescued by the cavalry and then rescued by Carey on the trail of Van Cleef and Jara. Wouldn't you know it she's Carey's old flame who married Webb on the rebound.
All these good folks wind up at Wallace Ford's old besieged by Silverheels and the Comanches who want Jara real bad. If you have no idea how this is all going to end, you've not seen too many westerns.
Regis Toomey as the post commanding colonel and Dennis Weaver as a hot headed young captain complete the cast of this western. It's way too contrived for my taste and the ending in how all is put right makes no sense at all.
But if you're interested in what I'm talking about sit through The Nebraskan and find out.
First we have some Comanche politics where Maurice Jara is accused of murdering the old chief in a palace coup d'etat. His accuser is Jay Silverheels who becomes the new chief. Things are really bad though when Jara decides white man's justice is better so his friend, army scout Philip Carey brings him in.
But when they lock him in the army guard house, another prisoner there, Lee Van Cleef has other ideas. He's a trooper accused of murder and he busts out together with Jara.
Then we got passengers on a stage Richard Webb and Robert Haynes, husband and wife, who get rescued by the cavalry and then rescued by Carey on the trail of Van Cleef and Jara. Wouldn't you know it she's Carey's old flame who married Webb on the rebound.
All these good folks wind up at Wallace Ford's old besieged by Silverheels and the Comanches who want Jara real bad. If you have no idea how this is all going to end, you've not seen too many westerns.
Regis Toomey as the post commanding colonel and Dennis Weaver as a hot headed young captain complete the cast of this western. It's way too contrived for my taste and the ending in how all is put right makes no sense at all.
But if you're interested in what I'm talking about sit through The Nebraskan and find out.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 21, 2008
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