I saw this strange little film at a rural drive-in as a child, and was struck even then by a strangeness that no one else seems to have remarked upon: the Indians appear to be wearing uniforms -- a strange departure from the usual Western convention whereby the Indians "all look the same," but are hardly dressed to resemble an army. This anomaly remains my most vivid memory of what we judged, as a family, a horrifically awful film and worse Western (a genre on which my father considered himself something of an expert, having followed Westerns since Tom Mix, in his youth) -- making it a perfect booking for drive-in showing in the sticks when it entered U.S. release. A question for the more knowledgeable and hard-core devotees out there: did this film gain wide release in U.S. theaters at the time?
