Dakota Incident

1956
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1h 28m

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Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.

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Trivia
John Lund reported that Linda Darnell drank heavily during the shooting of the picture, although it never posed any problem during working hours. Every day at noon, she drank vodka and usually ate something with onions.

Goofs
After the 'Mile High' stagecoach enters the town with the dead passengers aboard, one of the horses lies dead. It then mysteriously disappears. (NOTE: Four minutes later in screen time, when the stagecoach leaves town, John Banner's horse has already replaced the dead one which has evidently been moved out of the way).

Quotes
Sen. Blakely: In a small way, I'm trying to unite our people: the Indians and the white.
Amy Clarke: I hope your scalp is glued on tight. Have you ever met an Indian face to face?
Sen. Blakely: Only in the literary sense. You see, I happen to be a student of anthropology.
Amy Clarke: So was General Custer. It didn't help him much.

Connections
Featured in That's Action (1977)

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Dakota Incident review

A story like this would perhaps normally be told from the point of view of John Lund's bank teller, an honest man who is wanted for the robbery committed by fellow stagecoach passenger Dale Robertson. But it's mostly told from Robertson's perspective, a decision that helps prolong the audience's uncertainty about how things will end up. Despite making a few interesting choices like this Dakota Incident only occasionally manages to raise above its Poverty Row roots.