Well the best this highly fictionalized film can boast about, is the beautiful scenery, and that includes Alan Ladd and shapely Shelley Winters. If you over look the story flaws, you can come up with an action filled western. Set in 1877, Alan Ladd has been brought up by the Cree and becomes a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. He tries very hard to prevent the Cree allying with post-Little Big Horn Sioux. Ladd has a brother played by Jay Silverheels, who sides with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Robert Benton plays an insensitive British RCMP officer with whom Ladd mutinies against and leads a party to safety. In the group is saloon gal Shelley Winters, being accompanied by U.S Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, who is taking her to Montanna to stand trial for murder. Add some fighting action as the Sioux attack a lot, and there's even a canoe chase, that still does not rescue this film. But the mounties always get their man, in this case Ladd gets the the buxom saloon gal Winters. If you are a Alan Ladd fan, it could be a very enjoyable film for you to watch.
Review of Saskatchewan
