Devil's Doorway

Interesting off-center casting and a literate script distinguish this from so many ordinary westerns. Taylor, in some heavy makeup, is a Shoshone Indian who won the Congressional Medal of Honor while fighting for the Blues at Gettysburg. He goes home to Wyoming and runs afoul of Calhern, an Indian-hating lawyer who has some whites homestead the Indians' traditional lands. Taylor attempts to assuage matters between the tribe and the settlers by appealing to the authorities for help, but it's a useless gesture. The tribe is trounced in the courts and then on the battlefield and the picture ends with Taylor dying as he averts a massacre of his fellow Indians. This was...