Fort Dobbs (1958) [HD]

Clint IS the Man!
The last released starring movie role for Clint Walker, The Big Man Himself. The other two movies he's done, Gold of the Seven Saints and especially Yellowstone Kelly, are 5 star movies as well. Get them. Clint Walker, the gentle giant (unless there's trouble), was the man every other man wanted to emulate and every boy wanted as a father figure. He's infectious.

Clint is running from the law but he just has to help out the lady and her boy get away from the Comanches, as any true westerner would. There's lots of action and trouble, riding through western lands, and interesting human interaction. The scene of Clint grabbing the kid who's shooting at Comanches is short but priceless. Only Clint could do it that way. Virginia Mayo and Brian Keith give good performances. I like Virginia Mayo when she's more down to earth. The kid is great. It's all good.

I bought this from amazon.ca (Canada) but thought I should review it here too.

Derek

traditional but still very good
Fort Dobbs [Remaster] is a traditional western about law escaping gunman who has a posse after him to indian country , where he has to in order to save lonely farmer's wife and her boy after indians attack to her farm accompany them to safety to Fort Dobbs. Further complication is that she thinks gunman has killed her husband of which the evidence is farmers jacket with blood marks on the back of it. And gunman is wearing the same jacket.

After troublesome journey they find Fort Dobbs empty of living occupants because Fort already has been succesfully attacked by indians and they have to start defencing themself with the help from very same town's (of which gunman escaped) people with sheriff in charge of wagontrain who also has sought sanctuary in Fort Dobbs.

Then desperate battle starts between indians and sanctuaryseekers...

Very good western !!

A very good western
I have an old VHS recording of this movie and am glad to see it come out on DVD at long last. Clint Walker is one of my favorite actors although the only other movie of his that I have is Yuma, costarring Edgar Buchanan and Barry Sullivan.

Having killed a man who wronged him, Gar Davis (Clint Walker) flees from the town of Largo with a posse hot on his trail. He stumbles upon a dead man who had been killed by Comanches and, to elude the posse, changes clothes with him, rolls him over a cliff and leaves on foot. Needing a horse, he tries to obtain one at a nearby ranch, only to find that the dead man left a widow (Virginia Mayo) and a son. Since their ranch is about to be attacked by Comanches, Clint persuades Mayo and son to accompany him to Fort Dobbs. Along the way, they encounter Brian Keith, a likable scoundrel who hopes to enrich himself by selling a load of rifles to the indians. Conflict occurs when Mayo begins to suspect Clint of killing her husband and when...

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