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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
Anthony Numkena
- Comes Running
- (as Anthony Earl Numkena)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
- White Moon
- (as Adeline DeWalt Reynolds)
Chief Bright Fire
- Indian
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Frank DeKova
- Custin
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Grady Galloway
- Shemawgun
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Jim Hayward
- Tim Neeley
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Earl Holliman
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Muriel Landers
- Small Face, wife of Natayo
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Carlos Loya
- Katatatsi
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Michael Rennie
- Ending Narrator
- (voce)
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Richard Shackleton
- Byran Neeley
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Recensioni in evidenza
I can only say, poor Tyrone.
You make a fortune for your studio. You ask to make Nightmare Alley. Zanuck hates it. As a reward, you're handed mostly dreck until your contract is up.
Pony Soldier from 1952 is such dreck. It is in color, and Tyrone as Canadian Mountie Duncan Macdonald looks spectacular.
It was filmed in Arizona, and he got a nice romance out of it with Helen Frye, ex-wife of the founder of TWA. You can look it up on the Internet.
Film wise, it's 1876, and MacDonald, a newcomer to the Mounties, is given a dangerous assignment. The Cree Indians, now in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. MacDonald's mission is to free the hostages.
It's nice to look at, but that's about it. I spent the film feeling terrible for Power. Thankfully once the Fox shackles were off, he would be on the rise again. A little late, since six years after this film, he was dead.
You make a fortune for your studio. You ask to make Nightmare Alley. Zanuck hates it. As a reward, you're handed mostly dreck until your contract is up.
Pony Soldier from 1952 is such dreck. It is in color, and Tyrone as Canadian Mountie Duncan Macdonald looks spectacular.
It was filmed in Arizona, and he got a nice romance out of it with Helen Frye, ex-wife of the founder of TWA. You can look it up on the Internet.
Film wise, it's 1876, and MacDonald, a newcomer to the Mounties, is given a dangerous assignment. The Cree Indians, now in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. MacDonald's mission is to free the hostages.
It's nice to look at, but that's about it. I spent the film feeling terrible for Power. Thankfully once the Fox shackles were off, he would be on the rise again. A little late, since six years after this film, he was dead.
This totally inept film obviously could not afford to go anywhere near Canada ( there is a lot of talk about the respect for Queen Victoria in it and as seen here it was given a more appropriate title in the UK. ) Tyrone power is ill served by this Western, and in the main it is static stuck in a camp of Cree Native Americans. He is there to bring back two hostages that the Cree have captured after an attack on a wagon train. The talk is endless and tedious ( it is painfully explained that the Cree will speak English in the film, ) and there are sporadic attacks of violence including a killing by a hatchet in the face. Graphically shown, and nasty. The only virtue to the film is that the Native Americans are rarely called savages ( I counted one such comment ) and that the opening music was well composed by Alex North. Who can forget his score for the great ' A Streetcar Named Desire ' ? Thomas Gomez acts well as a guide for Tyrone Power and to sum up it is just about watchable.
The absence of a strong story line in the screenplay alleviates the overall effect of "Pony Soldier," but as filmed against a breathtaking Technicolor panorama, Joseph M Newman's film guarantees attention for its qualities of vivid action and the interesting authenticity with which life in last century times is depicted among the Cree Indians and the Mounted Police...
These sequences abound in effective atmosphere and are increased substantially by Newman's splendid choice of players (Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez and Penny Edwards) to surround head man Tyrone Power (in a colorful uniform) assigned to stop a tribe of hostile Crees from going on wage war against the U. S. Cavalry...
The film - free from weeds - stands out as a little gem of Technicolor beauty... It contains: a spectacular attack on a wagon train; hostages held as a pledge; enraged Indians riding into the hills to burn at the stake a beautiful innocent girl; and a battle during which a handsome hero is saved by the arrow of an Indian lad...
These sequences abound in effective atmosphere and are increased substantially by Newman's splendid choice of players (Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez and Penny Edwards) to surround head man Tyrone Power (in a colorful uniform) assigned to stop a tribe of hostile Crees from going on wage war against the U. S. Cavalry...
The film - free from weeds - stands out as a little gem of Technicolor beauty... It contains: a spectacular attack on a wagon train; hostages held as a pledge; enraged Indians riding into the hills to burn at the stake a beautiful innocent girl; and a battle during which a handsome hero is saved by the arrow of an Indian lad...
Mediocre and unexceptional western dealing with a tale of the early days of Canadian Mounted Police and their relationships with the Indians . Average Western has Tyrone power as the Mountie on an assignment to the US to stop rebel Indians led by Stuart Randall as Standing Bear and Cameron Mitchell as Konah and their Cree tribes from launching an all out attack . As Tyrone , accompanied by Natayo: Thomas Gómez, has to keep rescuing hostages throughout the movie , as well as battling Cameron Mitchell and help harassed settlers fight Indians .There are White captives to be rescued : Robert Horten , Penny Edwards , too , and building a thrilling final confrontation .
Spectacular , though medium budget western , with thrills , fights , go riding , and being mostly shot at an Indian location .Cast is pretty good , it stars Tyrone Power , a fine actor who performed some classic swashbucklers, until his early death in Spain when he was shooting Salomon and Queen of Sheba by King Vidor ; However , he is miscast in a very minor stuff for his usual standards . Costars Penny Edwards as the heroíne in distress who is kidnapped by Indians , she spent several years languishing in Roy Rogers Westerns . Support cast is frankly well ,such as : Cameron Mitchell , and Stuart Randall as two Indian chiefs who are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation , Robert Horton as a nasty hostage , Thomas Gomez as a fatty scout and uncredited Richard Boone , Earl Holliman and Michael Rennie as narrator . Colorfully and attractively cinematographed in pale but brilliant Technicolor by the professional cameraman Harry Jackson , Universal's ordinary .
The movie belongs to Canadian Mountie sub-genre including important titles as 1947 Unconquered by Cecil B DeMille , 1954 Saskatchewan by Raoul Walsh and 1961 Canadians by Burt Kennedy motion picture was regularly directed by Joseph M Newman. He was a prolific assistant director , writer and producer . As a filmmaker he realized a lot of films with no much success , and directing all kinds of genres with penchant for Western , Noir and Gangster movies such as The George Raft story , A Thunder of drums , The lawbreakers, The story of Arnold Rothstein , Tarzan the ape man , The big circus , Fort massacre , Flight to Hong Kong , Kiss of fire , Red skies of Montana , 711 Ocean drive, Vendetta , Outcasts of poker flat , Abandoned , Northwest Rangers , Don't Talk , Women in hiding, among others .
Spectacular , though medium budget western , with thrills , fights , go riding , and being mostly shot at an Indian location .Cast is pretty good , it stars Tyrone Power , a fine actor who performed some classic swashbucklers, until his early death in Spain when he was shooting Salomon and Queen of Sheba by King Vidor ; However , he is miscast in a very minor stuff for his usual standards . Costars Penny Edwards as the heroíne in distress who is kidnapped by Indians , she spent several years languishing in Roy Rogers Westerns . Support cast is frankly well ,such as : Cameron Mitchell , and Stuart Randall as two Indian chiefs who are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation , Robert Horton as a nasty hostage , Thomas Gomez as a fatty scout and uncredited Richard Boone , Earl Holliman and Michael Rennie as narrator . Colorfully and attractively cinematographed in pale but brilliant Technicolor by the professional cameraman Harry Jackson , Universal's ordinary .
The movie belongs to Canadian Mountie sub-genre including important titles as 1947 Unconquered by Cecil B DeMille , 1954 Saskatchewan by Raoul Walsh and 1961 Canadians by Burt Kennedy motion picture was regularly directed by Joseph M Newman. He was a prolific assistant director , writer and producer . As a filmmaker he realized a lot of films with no much success , and directing all kinds of genres with penchant for Western , Noir and Gangster movies such as The George Raft story , A Thunder of drums , The lawbreakers, The story of Arnold Rothstein , Tarzan the ape man , The big circus , Fort massacre , Flight to Hong Kong , Kiss of fire , Red skies of Montana , 711 Ocean drive, Vendetta , Outcasts of poker flat , Abandoned , Northwest Rangers , Don't Talk , Women in hiding, among others .
Garrulous Technicolor nonsense whose grasp of geography is evident from the use of Texan locations pretending to be Canada and whose fidelity to factual accuracy is evident from casting Cameron Mitchell and Thomas Gomez (the latter looking like Jabba the Hutt) as red indians. It boasts an interesting score by Alex North, who rapidly went on to much greater things.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizActor Stuart Randall, playing Standing Bear, had all his lines re-dubbed with another actor's voice after filming was completed. Apparently the producers finally realized that most Canadian Indians do not, like Randall, have a distinct Texas accent.
- BlooperMontana in this movie is actually Sedona, Arizona.
- Citazioni
Standing Bear: The pony soldier speaks with the tongue of the snake that rattles.
Constable Duncan MacDonald: It is Standing Bear who speaks with a forked tongue!
- ConnessioniReferenced in Tucker Carlson Tonight: Episodio datato 10 febbraio 2020 (2020)
- Colonne sonoreThe Maple Leaf Forever
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Written by Alexander Muir
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Dettagli
- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- El soldado de la reina
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Sedona, Arizona, Stati Uniti(Coconino National Forest)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Tempo di esecuzione
- 1h 22min(82 min)
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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