The Rawhide Trail

Jess Brady and Rupe Pardee are in jail in Gunsight, Texas, blamed for leading a wagon train into a Comanche ambush, and about to be hanged. They protest their innocence and claim that the Indians want to kill them also. The Comanches attack the jail in an effort to capture the prisoners, but are driven off the soldiers of the garrison led by the Captain.

Expecting another attack, the Captain and a small detail of men move the prisoners out of town in a wagon, but they are under constant surveillance by the Comanches. The detail arrives at a way station the same time as a stage coach carrying Marsha Collins, and her fiancée, Farley Durand, a government supply officer. All are trapped in the station which is under constant attack by the Indians. In the escape battle, it is revealed that Durand was responsible for the attack on the wagon train, and not Brady and Pardee.

You don't usually see injuns attacking a town- ghost town yes, but not a fully fledged town, but of course the town's population gets whittled down and you get the usual survivors trying to stay alive from the Comanches - there's the usual tropes and familiar characterisations, but I quite enjoyed it (probably would've enjoyed it more with a better print and audio sound) as it was quite adequate in its execution and it's not boring. Maybe a little bit too talky at times.

Rex Reason, who bears a slight resemblance to Stewart Granger and has a similar booming voice, heads a good cast and does a fine job. Nancy Gates sizzles as an uppity girl engaged to a scoundrel who is trying to make a Buck by selling guns to the Comanches. The finale is quite tense with the Comanches crawling through the rocks towards Reason and Gates and the bullet through the ammo letting off a small rock slide. A modestly enjoyable western, though probably only for the genre addicts.