Ride Out For Revenge

By the late 1950s, the popular formula B westerns were going through many changes to keep up with the increasingly sophisticated audiences. Gone were the days of handsome hero and villainous bad guys. The new cliches were drunken, cowardly anti-heros and Indians who finally were treated like human beings. RIDE OUT FOR REVENGE is a classic example of the new formula. Bridges plays a corrupt cavalry officer who is put in charge of the Cheyenne migration from ancestral grounds to a reservation. When gold is discovered on the new property, the whites change their mind about where the Indians should be placed. Calhoun is a cavalry scout who sympathizes with the displace...