Kentucky Rifle

Kentucky Rifle

27/4/1955 1h 24m 5.1/10

Overview

A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.

Director

Carl K. Hittleman

Top Billed Cast

Sterling Holloway

Sterling Holloway

Lon Setter

Henry Hull

Henry Hull

Preacher Bently

Chill Wills

Chill Wills

Tobias Taylor

Lance Fuller

Lance Fuller

Jason Clay

Cathy Downs

Cathy Downs

Amy Connors

Jeanne Cagney

Jeanne Cagney

Cordie Hay

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/5/2023

5/10

Hmmm. As B Westerns go, this has to be more of a C+ as Chill Wills really struggles to hold this together. He is "Taylor" who is in charge of repairing a busted wagon that's been left behind by the train - exposing it to a gang of marauding Comanches who want it's not-so-secret cargo of Winchesters. He's not helped by the fact that his colleagues are all a bit self-obsessed with each having their own agenda and who are all just a bit selfish. Can he get them all through safely without surrendering their lives and/or their weapons? I didn't really care, to be honest. The production is basic, the dialogue far too wordy and the characterisations, led by Wills but hardly augmented by the wooden as as spoon Cathy Downs ("Amy") and Lance Fuller's "Clay" do little to liven this rather procedural mix either. Henry Hull tries his best as the preacher, but by the mid-point I was the one praying: for the Comanches to do us all favour and put us out of our misery. One for list completists, I'd say - though quite what list this'd ever be on. Poor, sorry!

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