The Command
An Army doctor with no combat experience is forced to take command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's commanding officer dies.
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"David Butler was the Warner Bros handyman director, as Robert Z Leonard was for Metro Goldwyn Mayer, or even Sidney Landfield for Twentieth Century Fox, directors more known for musicals, comedies, light hearted dramas, forgettable and lousy stuff, but once in a while a good, solid war drama, thriller or western. Leonard gave us THE BRIBE, starring Robert Taylor, Landfield HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLE, whilst David Butler made this excellent powerful western, plus KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS, JUMP INTO HELL and SAN ANTONIO. Please forget the rest. Strange that in this western, you have a B movi..."
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At about 79 minutes, in a scene of Indians attacking the wagons full of soldiers, one Indian gets shot off his horse, then is run over by a wagon drawn by four horses . That wasn't a planned stunt--he was supposed to be "shot" and fall off the side of his horse, but the horse unexpectedly reared back and dumped him into the path of the wagon, which ran over him. He suffered numerous broken bones and ribs, but the scene was left in.
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An Army doctor with no combat experience is forced to take command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's commanding officer dies.