Pawnee

George Montgomery didn't make particularly good westerns--like a lot of other western stars he was tall, good-looking,rode a horse fairly well, and was a strapping physical specimen, but he jut didn't that "something" that set him apart from the rest of the crowd. He did make a few better-than-average westerns--1951's "The Texas Rangers" fits that description--but for the most part his stuff was for the lower half of a double bill, ceaplly ade in black and white for low-rent outfit like Allied Artists or some independent ocmpany, and one was pretty much like the next.

An old western, that isn't that old. In the late 1950's PAWNEE looked old and somewhat modern.

After watching this film I thought back to 1957 when this film first came out and I wonder if anyone noticed that Pawnee was a remake of The Ten Commandments set in the old west. I guess that Paramount thought that Herbert J.

Despite a veteran cast, this one just doesn't make the grade. The script is routine at best, and most of the location and action scenes are nothing more than stock footage, most of it gleaned from "Buffalo Bill" (1944).

This is just one in a huge string of westerns that Montgomery made over the course of his career. This one, however, falls pretty near the bottom of the heap in quality and prestige.

While much of this movie progresses at an anemic pace and much of the ending is lifted out of at least one other cavalry versus Indians movie, the epic confrontation of Pale Arrow (George Montgomery) versus Crazy Fox (Charles Horvath) offered, for me, a stirring finish.All during the film, Crazy Fox has nourished a hatred against Pale Arrow, a man brought up by the tribe.