During the fight scene between Capt Coburn (Audie Murphy) & Corporal Bodine (red-headed Kenneth Tobey), there are obvious stand-ins for both characters.
The brown haired Coburn now has much darker hair-almost black while the red haired Bodine has dark brown hair.
During the fight scene between Capt Coburn & Corporal Bodine, Bodine throws a follows a left handed cross from Coburn with a right handed cross of his own.
The punch clearly misses Coburn by several inches, though Coburn goes reeling back.
When Mike is captured and his brother Doug is freaking out, Doug looks around--at the dead soldier lying next to him and then at the dead Apache hanging from the rock above him.
The Apache is looking at him even though earlier he was looking at him when he was positioned on the opposite side.
When Bodine steals the rifles, and tells the rest of the deserters to load them on the horses, the crates are loaded vertically on the horses backs.
When they ride off, the rifle crates, are loaded horizontally along the horses backs.
Audie Murphy plays a tough, by-the-book Cavalry officer in Apache territory who's hard on his men. He's sent to pick up 40 automatic rifles and bring them back to the fort, but he runs into difficulties (of course).
This joke of a movie -- with terrible acting, a thin plot and cheap production values -- at least gave me a laugh once when I badly needed one. For some unaccountable reason, they sent us this movie about the cavalry to see when we were serving in the actual 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) in Vietnam.
This is just superficial, weak, clichéd Hollywood crap. There's hardly a western movie cliché that's left out.
Audie Murphy is Captain Coburn. A cavalry officer who has been tasked to deliver a shipment of 40 rifles to a fort fighting off the Apaches who plan to kill the homesteaders.
Audie Murphy that most likable of unconvincing heroic actors. A real life super hero, Murphy compares badly against Randolph Scott who towered above every cheap western he ever made with total conviction as a granite hard hero that you believe totally, that's the movies.
Here's the bad news about this film. It has a ridiculous narration that keeps telling us what we don't need to be told.
40 Guns to Apache Pass is directed by William Witney and written by Willard and Mary Willingham. It stars Audie Murphy and Kenneth Tobey.
I've read several other reviews and I must ask if those who call this a cheapie have ever watched a 'western' where 90% of the film takes place in a town or in a confined location where they talk each other to death. I love for it's drama and characters, the original '3:10 to Yuma'.
I loved this movie. Audie Murphy did a great job in the lonely outpost fighting Apaches.