Black Eagle of Santa Fe

Black Eagle of Santa Fe

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  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1965-03-11
  • Runtime: 91 minutes
  • : 6.1
  • Production Company: SNC
  • Production Country: France, Germany, Italy
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6.1/10
6.1
From 5 Ratings

Description

When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    With the American Civil War finally lost, the four “Canfield” brothers go their own way. One, “Britt” (Randolph Scott) is a railway engineer and he ends up working on the route down to Santa Fe in New Mexico for it’s chief engineer “Baxter” (Warner Anderson). Meantime, his siblings continue to nurse their grudges against their former Yankee opponents and so are gathered up on the side of those opposed to the railroad - and that also includes the odd hold-up or two. “Britt” is loathe to betray his brothers, but now he has taken a shine to the suspicious “Judith” (Janis Carter), whose father had been killed fighting for the bluecoats, he has to tread carefully else she might conclude that he is their fifth columnist. For a while this works fine as it illustrates the difficulties faced by these steel beast pioneers. If it wasn’t their competitors it could be greedy landowners or angry Apache or any combination of manmade obstacles just as potent at the mountains, rivers and great expanses that had to be covered in these vast engineering exercises. Sadly, though, I felt the plot rather lost it’s way in the closing stages with too many loyalties strained and tested before a conclusion that I felt fizzled rather than flared. Scott was never my favourite star, but he usually rose to the occasion if he had a strong foil for his almost always upstanding character. Here, there isn’t really a baddie to focus on but more a conflicted familial melodrama that screamed out for a Barbara Stanwyck or a Jimmy Stewart. It’s watchable enough, just not great.

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