THEY RODE WEST is an idealistic Western in which an arny doctor manages to get US troops to come to peace with joint Kiow and Comanche forces.
In the process, poor Robert Francis (playing Dr. Sewer) has to suffer the vexation of being called an Indian lover, a woodhawk, and a renegade - but still he remains faithful to the Hippocratic oath and he continues to treat whites and Indians as plain human beings and nothing but.
Francis performs credibily and is clearly the good man here, surrounded by others who appear to have sinister and racist motivations, like Captain Blake (played by Phillip Carey), who actually shoots an Indian in the back and never gets punished for it, even though he nearly started a war by doing so.
The two women in this film, Donna Reed and May Wynn, are important to the story in that they can see the good in the doctor and help him advance the cause of peace. Donna Reed gets a strangely small part after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar the previous year.
All told, it is an enjoyable and highly moralistic Western.
Plenty of credibility holes.
In the process, poor Robert Francis (playing Dr. Sewer) has to suffer the vexation of being called an Indian lover, a woodhawk, and a renegade - but still he remains faithful to the Hippocratic oath and he continues to treat whites and Indians as plain human beings and nothing but.
Francis performs credibily and is clearly the good man here, surrounded by others who appear to have sinister and racist motivations, like Captain Blake (played by Phillip Carey), who actually shoots an Indian in the back and never gets punished for it, even though he nearly started a war by doing so.
The two women in this film, Donna Reed and May Wynn, are important to the story in that they can see the good in the doctor and help him advance the cause of peace. Donna Reed gets a strangely small part after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar the previous year.
All told, it is an enjoyable and highly moralistic Western.
Plenty of credibility holes.