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Devil's Doorway

1950, Movie, NR, 84 mins

Devil's Doorway: Review

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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 not a popular movie for many reasons: the hero died, there was little romance (a brief fling with Paula Raymond that one barely notices) and no one much cared for Indian causes at the time, having been brought up on John Wayne's attitudes toward them. Too bad, because this was a good story and Trosper put intelligent words into the mouths of the actors. Although in black and white, Alton's camera manages to capture the light and shade of the Wyoming territory as effectively as an Ansel Adams still of Yosemite. leave a comment
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