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Unusually violent for its time?

posted 15 years ago by Bilwick1
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I remember seeing this in theaters as the second half of a double bill with another feature that was the main reason my father and I were there. I forget what the main feature was, and I remember very little of THE OREGON TRAIL, but I do remember that as a kid I found this movie disturbing and unsually bloody and violent, particularly the climactic attack on the fort. I guess I was used to the less brutal violence of TV westerns. Am I misremembering this, or was it unusually violent for its time? I remember seeing someone die with an amount of blood that I had not seen in movies before that.

[–] DavidW1947 13 years ago

If you went to see it in Great Britain on its original release, it formed the lower half of a double bill with "The Navy Lark". The critic in Picturegoer magazine at the time also thought that this film was unusually violent for a "U" certificate film and that the scene in the attack on the fort in the final reel, where a little boy is shot and killed with an arrow was very graphic and totally uncalled for.

[–] MAGolding (1240) 7 years ago

Yes, I remember seeing the movie a long time ago on TV and noted that a child was killed in the battle. Also at the beginning a massacred wagon train is seen including a child's doll and later in the movie the protagonist's wagon train finds the remains and someone picks up the doll.

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[–] MAGolding (1240) 5 years ago

See here:

https://moviechat.org/tt0056606/Tower-of-London/58c724625ec57f0478ed7087/The-Child-Princes-Possible-Spoilers?reply=5df2aa640f49722942728325&animate=false

and here:

https://moviechat.org/tt0052611/The-Giant-Behemoth/58c706b84e1cf308b937c223/A-Grim-Aspect-of-this-Film?reply=5df2aa2d0f49722942728320&animate=false

And: https://moviechat.org/tt0044205/Westward-the-Women/58c705094e1cf308b93637c3/Two-questions-about-the-Italian-boy-MAJOR-SPOILER?reply=5df2b1720f49722942728362&animate=false