“They Rode West” is a western drama about a new doctor at a remote Army outpost who gives medical treatment to local Indians against the orders of his superior officers. The drama proceeds from there, especially when Native Americans attacked the fort. Director Phil Karlson (“The Texas Rangers” 1951) and screenwriters Frank S. Nugent and DeVallon Scott put together a solid film that holds viewers attention for the 84 minute running time. This Columbia Pictures movie was filmed in Technicolor.
The stars of the watchable “They Rode West” are Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey, Roy Roberts, Jack Kelly, Frank DeKova, Peggy Converse, Onslow Stevens, John War Eagle, Ralph Dumke, Eugene Iglesias, Stuart Randall, and James Best in an uncredited role early in his career. He later became famous as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on CBS’s “The Dukes of Hazard” (1979-1985. Robert Francis and May Wynn were reunited from their previous film “The Caine Mutiny” (1954), which starred Humphrey Bogart. Robert Francis died in a plane crash near the Hollywood-Burbank Airport in 1955.
Jack Kelly and May Wynn met on the set of “They Rode West” were later married in 1956 and divorced in 1964. After Kelly retired from show business, he moved into politics and served on the city council of Huntington Beach, California, from 1980-1988 and 1990-1992. He was Mayor of Huntington Beach in 1983 and 1986.
They Rode West (1954)
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“They Rode West” is a western drama about a new doctor at a remote Army outpost who gives medical treatment to local Indians against the orders of his superior officers. The drama proceeds from there, especially when Native Americans attacked the fort. Director Phil Karlson (“The Texas Rangers” 1951) and screenwriters Frank S. Nugent and DeVallon Scott put together a solid film that holds viewers attention for the 84 minute running time. This Columbia Pictures movie was filmed in Technicolor.
The stars of the watchable “They Rode West” are Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey, Roy Roberts, Jack Kelly, Frank DeKova, Peggy Converse, Onslow Stevens, John War Eagle, Ralph Dumke, Eugene Iglesias, Stuart Randall, and James Best in an uncredited role early in his career. He later became famous as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on CBS’s “The Dukes of Hazard” (1979-1985. Robert Francis and May Wynn were reunited from their previous film “The Caine Mutiny” (1954), which starred Humphrey Bogart. Robert Francis died in a plane crash near the Hollywood-Burbank Airport in 1955.
Jack Kelly and May Wynn met on the set of “They Rode West” were later married in 1956 and divorced in 1964. After Kelly retired from show business, he moved into politics and served on the city council of Huntington Beach, California, from 1980-1988 and 1990-1992. He was Mayor of Huntington Beach in 1983 and 1986.