Dürstende Lippen

This is an old fashioned cowboys and Indians story with the cavalry literally saving the heroic band of Indian fighters at the last minute. It has some very good old fashioned character actors with the likes of Broderick Crawford, Martin Milner, Mickey Shaughnessy and a much younger Della Street in the guise of Barbara Hale. In this age of extreme anxiety, with bands of terrorists threatening we know not where or what, it was very nice to escape back in time to this kind of well produced, well acted 50's western. Though it is, perhaps, a movie for those of a certain generation.

Basically this film is a remake of the 1943 Humphrey Bogart film 'Sahara' with essentially the same plot moved from the deserts of North Africa to the American Southwest. Nevertheless, this is a solid western with good acting by a cast of competent character actors and vivid photography. Broderick Crawford was, to my mind, a very underrated actor and we see Barbara Hale here prior to her 'Perry Mason' days and Lloyd Bridges prior to his'Sea Hunt' underwater TV series. All in all, an enjoyable film for western devotees. I remember originally seeing this film at the weekly Friday night 'Ranch Night' at my local theater in the late 50s. If you like this film, be sure to see the 'Last Posse' with Broderick Crawford which is just as good, if not superior to this western.

The remainder of a squadron of cavalry and the unfortunate passagers of a stagecoach join forces throughout the desert escaping from hostile indians and fighting for their survival . An exciting, stirring tale about a stranded group who hardly ever holding Comanche attacks. Ten men...a woman..and only a ghost of a chance ! Ten against then thousand ... and a million-to-one chance to even the odds !

Gritty and decently written Western , exploring the anguish of soldiers and stagecoach passengers , and the hard relationship among them. This is a moving story about people surrounded and continuously harassed by Indians and other dangers . Make a thousand double bill Westerns and you must come up with one little gem . Director here and there puts every trick and action enough . Stars Broderick Crawford who gives a nice acting as a two-fisted Cavalry Sergeant commanding a ragtag team. He leads a parade of interpretations that make the characters live. The remmant cast are pretty good with plenty of notorious actors and other secondaries, such as : Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Mathews, Chubby Johnson , Martin Milner and brief appearance uncredited of Steve Forrest.

It displays a thrilling and evocative musical score by George Duning. Furthermore, brilliant and picturesque photography by cameramen Charles Laughton and Ray Cory. The motion picture was well directed by Andre De Toth .At his beginning, De Toth entered the Hungarian film industry , getting work as a writer, editor, second unit director and actor before eventually becoming a filmmaker. Later on, Alexander Korda gave him a job in England, then Toth emigrated to the US in 1942 and started working as a second unit director in Jungle Book 1942. Andre De Toth was a skillful artisan, who made all kinds of genres as : Adventure : The Mongols , Morgan the pirate, Tanganyka. Peplum: Gold for the Caesar. Terror : House of Wax 1953, probably his best and most known film. And Westerns : Indian Fighter, Man in the saddle, Ramrod, The stranger wore a gun, Last of the Comanches . Rating : 6.5, well worthwatching. Essential and fundamental seeing for Western enthusiasts.

This movie is almost a carbon copy of the WWII, 1943 version of the movie Sahara which starred Humphrey Bogart as Sergeant Joe Gunn. Bogart and a ragtag group of soldiers cross the Sahara Desert and make an almost hopeless stand against terrible odds.

They and the Germans are greatly in need of water. The..."trade a rifle for a cup of water... two rifles, two cups of water" is the same in both.... still fun to watch. It's fun to match the characters and the similarities. Sahara (1943) is a very, very good WWI movie.... Last of the Comanches (1952) is a so-so Western.

An atmospheric, character-driven exercise in suspense shot mainly out in the open in brilliant sunlight, set shortly after the massacre at Little Big Horn. Handsomely mounted in Technicolor and grouped with a dramatic eye; the use of the singular being appropriate since the director himself famously had only the one eye.