Audie Murphy's last movie as a lead is the story of story he was making in 1951 but it's not a bad set up - he's a calvary captain at an Arizona town surrounded by Apaches, who leads a mission to retrieve a wagon containing forty rifles. There's some troublesome dudes in the posse, including a cowardly soldier who lets his brother get killed, and a rebellious Southerner.
There's some irritating (and unnecessary) voice over, something which featured in a few Audie Murphy westerns, Kenneth Tobey and Michael Blodgett in the support cast, a decent amount of action, an underdeveloped love interest who just pops up and at the end. William Witney wasn't the best director in the world. The story holds and keeps this solid. Not awesome but not bad, and suitable in a way for it to be a Murphy swan song as it's typical of far too much of his output.
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