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Plot

Apache War Smoke was a remake of Apache Trail (42); both films were based on a story by Ernest Haycox. Haycox had previously written Stage to Lordsburg, a western yarn filmed by John Ford as Stagecoach (39). Apache War Smoke adheres to the Stagecoach formula by trapping several strangers in a dangerous situation, in this instance an incipient Apache uprising. Included in the group are the passengers of a stagecoach, and the gang of bandits who've just held up the coach; there's also a notorious Indian hater in the bunch. Apache War Smoke spins its yarn in a brisk 67 minutes, with only a few slow stretches here and there.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Action,Westerns
Run Time:
67min.
Director(s):
Harold Kress
Starring:
Gilbert Roland , Glenda Farrell , Robert Horton , Barbara Ruick , Gene Lockhart
Keywords:
alienation,attack,bad-guy,cowboy,father,good-guy,hidden,outlaw [Western],robbery,safety,stagecoach,station,tension