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"Hard-as-spikes men and soft-as-silk women ... they ran into towering canyons and Comanche terror when they ran the railroad to the Gold Coast."

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

Top Cast

  • Jock Mahoney

    Jock Mahoney

    Ross Granger

  • Peggie Castle

    Peggie Castle

    Ann Dennison

  • Adele Jergens

    Adele Jergens

    Jessie Loraine

  • William Bishop

    William Bishop

    Del Stewart

  • Chubby Johnson

    Chubby Johnson

    Sheriff Blaney

  • Walter Sande

    Walter Sande

    Mr. Dennison

  • Chris Alcaide

    Chris Alcaide

    Jason

  • Pat Hogan

    Pat Hogan

    Dark Thunder

  • Fred Graham

    Fred Graham

    Jenks - Stage Driver

Overview

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

Rating

5.6 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Jul 24, 2023

    This might have packed a bit more punch had the assembled acting talent had a bit more to them, but as it is it is really just a rather routine cowboy and indian western centring around the expanding railroad after the end of the American civil war. "Granger" (Jock Mahoney) is, ostensibly, a telegrapher sent in by the railway company but is soon embroiled in some gun-running that is providing the hostile Comanches with the wherewithal to hold up construction and cause mayhem amongst the workforce. It soon becomes clear that there is something more to this harassment - and evidence of bribery and corruption in order to have the line diverted quickly emerges. Can he get to the bottom of it? It takes it's time to get going this, but after about twenty minutes it becomes a predictable, but perfectly watchable, afternoon filler. There are some gunfights, fisticuffs and, of course, the obligatory romance before a denouement that we've all seen loads of times before. Nothing at all new, but it's not bad.

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