I could have sworn there was a scene in this movie where Lassiter wakes up one morning on the trail to find the Indian girl curled up next to him. He cusses and asks Rodriguez why she picked him, and he replies something about she wanted to sleep next to the fat man, or the old man, something like that. Am I remembering a different movie? This is making me nuts!
shareI cant remember that scene you are talking about... but can someone explain when they rode up on the house that was half burnt a woman was in the bed moaning the camera didnt pan down to show her and Boones brakes down and shoots her. Who were these people just some settles that the Indians killed? The poor baby he must of died of starvation and neglect......
shareI think they're leaving it up to the viewer's imagination as to what exactly happened to the mother. Boone's wife had been tortured, so I imagine this mother was tortured as well, probably cut up some, certainly raped, probably no hope of surviving. So Boone puts her out of her misery. Maybe the baby was injured? They never say, but when you first see it in the crib it has blood on it's chest.
shareI could have sworn there was a scene in this movie where Lassiter wakes up one morning on the trail to find the Indian girl curled up next to him. He cusses and asks Rodriguez why she picked him, and he replies something about she wanted to sleep next to the fat man, or the old man, something like that. Am I remembering a different movie?
Por favor, the "Frontier Beefcake" is Mexican actor Jorge Rivero. Cuánto prejuicio!
shareI see that Gordon Douglas had a useless Jim brown in film,his presence on screen made me ill.
The Great Clint Walker was a shoe in for one of five roles.
I say that Mr Walker was discriminated against again.
I think you're remembering a different movie: RIO LOBO -- in which John Wayne awakes to find Jennifer O'Neill against him, and is told she chose him over the young Frontier Beefcake companion because he (Wayne) was "comfortable."
Just watched this film on Youtube. I had a vague idea that I'd seen it at least twice before, especially when I saw Edmund O'Brien featured as "Purdee" in the opening credits. But the first three-quarters of the film must have escaped my memory, and it was only with the arrival at Purdee's sham mansion that it became familiar.
Curiously only a day or two before, I'd seen another film in which a character was dragged by a horse along the ground, which brought to mind the similar scene in "Rio Conchos".
I also had a vague idea that a couple of the Indian chiefs had dinner with the senior outlaws and one got so drunk that his face fell onto his plate. It wasn't in the version I've just seen.
Not too bad a Western, but I found the Rodriguez character annoying.
The drunk chief who falls with his face into the plate should be from The Comancheros.
the Chief is called Iron Shirt in the movie and is based on a real Comanche chief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jacket