A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.
George D. Wallace
- Will Boone
- (as George Wallace)
Charlita
- Mexican dancer
- (as Charlita Regis)
Joe Garcio
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Dick Pascoe
- Charlie
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- TriviaBurt Kennedy wrote this as a vehicle for Richard Widmark.
- GoofsIndians are reputed to ride horses bare back it's obvious that the blanket on Yellow Shirt's horse is covering a saddle as not only are stirrups hanging down but he puts his hands on a hidden pummel to pill himself up.
- Quotes
Frank Jesse: I got myself a policy: never do an honest days work unless it's absolutely necessary.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Best in Action: 1962 (2018)
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"Always Check The Brand"
Audie Murphy said of his film career that he himself remained the same throughout, and the scripts didn't vary much - it was only the horses that changed. This rather ordinary western fits neatly into the Murphy catalogue.
A cowpoke befriends a fellow drifter who rescues him from a lynch mob. In the town of Perdido the two pals are hired by a beautiful woman to escort her across indian territory. It turns out that Kelly (Joan O'Brien) has an ulterior motive.
Dan Duryea and Murphy combine well enough as the chalk-and-cheese buddies. The film contains a good mariachi funeral, and the dialogue-free opening sequence is well done, telling the story in visual language. The picturesque setting of sandstone outcrops and flat scrubland (filmed in Utah, of all places) provides an attractive backdrop for the action.
When all is said and done, however, "Six Black Horses" is a fairly brainless oater from the early 1960's. You know the sort of thing - the latina dancing-girl in the saloon has a red flower in her cleavage, and in the shoot-out at the old mission, the indians' bullets keep pinging off the same spot on the parapet, while the indians themselves obligingly mass in the open, allowing Audie to get a good shot at them.
Verdict - Always check the brand, lest you end up with a Murphy turkey.
A cowpoke befriends a fellow drifter who rescues him from a lynch mob. In the town of Perdido the two pals are hired by a beautiful woman to escort her across indian territory. It turns out that Kelly (Joan O'Brien) has an ulterior motive.
Dan Duryea and Murphy combine well enough as the chalk-and-cheese buddies. The film contains a good mariachi funeral, and the dialogue-free opening sequence is well done, telling the story in visual language. The picturesque setting of sandstone outcrops and flat scrubland (filmed in Utah, of all places) provides an attractive backdrop for the action.
When all is said and done, however, "Six Black Horses" is a fairly brainless oater from the early 1960's. You know the sort of thing - the latina dancing-girl in the saloon has a red flower in her cleavage, and in the shoot-out at the old mission, the indians' bullets keep pinging off the same spot on the parapet, while the indians themselves obligingly mass in the open, allowing Audie to get a good shot at them.
Verdict - Always check the brand, lest you end up with a Murphy turkey.
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- Dec 26, 1999
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- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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