The Last Frontier

Mature is showcased as part of a trio of trappers who lose a year's worth of skins to marauding Indians in this routine western. The three arrive at a cavalry outpost and take jobs as scouts. But all is not well at the fort, whose residents fear Indian attack and hate the new commander, Preston. Mature chases after Preston's woman, Bancroft. The performers make the best of weak scripting and direction in this sometimes absurd story about the taming of a "noble savage." Oddly, and adding to its defects, much of the film was shot at night.