Ghost Town

This movie was first released in 1956(2011), in full screen 1.33.1, B/W and runs 75 minutes. The sound and picture quality are very good. There are no extras. The film starts with a Missouri Western stage coach stopping in the wild west because the lead horse has a shoe problem. They were next to FLINT river. The coach was heading for RIMROCK. After 90 miles ride Duff Dailey(JOHN SMITH) and Trusty McCabe arrive at Rimrock and find it looted, deserted and rundown. They think the Cheyenne and Arapaho could have done this. Then they see the stage coming. Barbara Leyton(MARIAN CARR) was to meet Duff here. They had to move to the next station of 'CHIMNEY BUIT'. Everybody gets back into the coach and they ride again, Duff and his friend Trusty scouting ahead. Conroy(KENT TAYLOR) and Doc(JOHN DONCETTE) agree that Indians had been there. The preacher thinks, Indians must have been seriously provoked or drunk. The scouts soon find empty alcohol bottles. 2 more join in, Kindare and his son Alex(GARY MURRAY). They say Chimney Buit was knocked out that morning. They all decide to go North to avoid the Indians. But suddenly the coach driver is arrowed in his back. More Indians mass on the nearby hill and then they are behind the coach, chasing. Soon the Indians stop chasing and the stage coach sees a town ahead, all deserted. The horses were tired and they needed to use the best building, Pipestore saloon. The Doc was missing. They do not understand why the Indians let them slip into this town, without a fight. Duff thinks, there was tabou on this town with white crosses on the house doors, possibly the town was wiped out by the 'fever'. And they had only 130 rounds of cartridges left.How will it end? Why did the Indians stay away from the town? What did the white crosses on the doors of the houses mean? What was in those houses? What happened to the missing Doc? Will Cheyenne attack? Who sold rifles to the Indians? Can they get any help in? What do the Indians want?This story of JAMESON BREWER is beautifully photographed in B/W by JOSEPH F BIROC and well directed by ALLEN MINER. The action scenes are very good, however the film starts briskly and slows at the end. The film was made in Kanab, Utah. JOHN SMITH(ROBERT ERROL VAN ORDEN -3.3.1931 to 25.1.1995) gives a good performance.KENT TAYLOR(LOUIS WILLIAM WEISS) was born on 11.5.1907 in Nashua, Iowa. He appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them 'B' Movies in 1930's and 1940's. In 1950, his movie career was on the decline and the TV production was on the uprising. He played 58 episodes in detective series 'Boston Blackie' and 39 episodes of 'Rough Riders'. The last years of his career were spent in slaughter and horror films. He was married to KULEK AUGUSTA(1930-1987) and had 3 children. He retired in 1974. He died on 11.4.1987, aged 79, in Woodland Hills, California.Some of Kent Taylor's films are:-(1) I Am No Angel, 1933(2) Death Takes a Holiday, 1934(3) Payment on Demand, 1951(4) Track the Man Down, 1955(5) Satan's Sadists(6) Blood of Ghastly Horror(7) I Spit on Your Corpse(8) Detective series, Boston Blackie TV(9) The Rough Riders, TV 1958(10)Hawaiian EyeWatch and ENJOY.

Where do I start...I suppose I am lucky to have actually got the right film! and that's a good place to start!. This is another of those very obscure westerns that I have wanted to see for 50 years or more. Idon't think it's ever been on TV here in the U?K and never will be, and I doubt it will receive a "U/K" release. So, along with 5 other DVD's all at the same price,($20) I ordered it from the "made to order" MGM/Fox group on Amazon USA. It turned up earlier than forecast (they all did), and I am pleased to say that the quality (as they all have been) is excellent. So no grumbles there at all. The film is really for mad western buffs like me (and Dr Nagi and "Mr Jim" Lovins - sorry guys), and for me it is a good view. Kent Taylor is always value for money, and John Smith does well as the hero in one of his early roles pre "Laramie". Support cast is good - Marian Carr makes a useful Claire Trevor type, and Serena Sand is a different kind of Indian Maid. John Doucette disapears far to early, and a rather forgotten "heavy" Joel Asley does well. Also on show for real buffs are Boyd "Red" Morgan and Al Wyatt as driver and guard respectively. It's a kind of "Stagecoach" plot tho not as good and full of cliches, but to me, it's none the worse for that, and I enjoyed it. Recomended for hard core western fans. (For more plot details do read Dr Nafi's review)

John Smith was a good actor but he and his partner played by Gilman Rankin are wasted in this poor man's version of STAGECOACH which has variations of most of the expected characters. There is the hard drinking doctor who just disappears early in the movie. Did John Doucette have an argument with the director? The sleek character played by Kent Taylor, whom you would peg as the professional gambler turns out to be something really sleazy instead. The true-hearted blonde fiance also turns out to be something less than she seems. Of course the half Indian girl is noble and admirable. Then there is the stupid, touchy-feely guy who thinks that we would all just get along if we talked to each other (This stock character is played by Ward Bond in DAKOTA INCIDENT, a better STAGECOACH knockoff). Of course there is an army sergeant who obviously has a secret and a son who wants to prove himself. And there is the hoard of dangerous Indians, said to be 1000 strong but appearing to be no more than 30 or so. There is also a coffin found in the ghost town with what at first glance appears to be a wooden stake driven into it with dried blood around it. Unfortunately this is actually a candle with melted wax around it. I say unfortunately because a vampire or even just a mystery would have added some interest to the movie. If you would like to see a B movie version of STAGECOACH with the supernatural spicing it up, try BLOOD MOON, a 2014 movie about which I wrote a review a couple of hours ago.

this one has just about every cliche you can get, especially, since it is a poor man's rip off of Stagecoach, however, there are some plot twists that you might not see coming, and the ending is actually quite good.One terrible flaw here that spoils the suspension of disbelief: they are strapped for ammunition, especially since they are all terrible shots and are wasting bullets instead of carefully measuring their aim, however, each time a wave of Indians rides through the town , they do manage to pick off a couple here and there. Each time the Indians retreated, they should have ran out and grabbed the guns/ammo from the fallen Indians. This is the first thing I would have thought of.Anyway, it doesn't take long to realize that the "innocent" fiancee of the leading man is surely NOT the Gal for him, rather, the fetching Indian half caste that gets thrown into the plot, and her particular role, if you ask me, was one of the saving graces of this movie.

Awesome move.

Buy this a true forgotten gem like dust devil this is fabulous injoy

Very enjoyable movie modern western with ghost story bringing main characters back to the old west. Great movie for all Western fans.

très beau film avec un scénario qui tien la route l'histoire est passionnante,les acteurs jouent juste,le blu ray est de très bonne qualités, le son l’image un très bon produit que je conseille fortement.

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商人のコンロイ(ケント・テイラー)、医者のクロウソン(ジョン・ドウセット)、説教師ウィードル(ギルマン・ランキン)、若い女性バーバラ(マリアン・カー)を乗せた駅馬車が、リムロック駅へと向かっていた。一方その頃、バーバラと会うために、金採掘者のダフ(ジョン・スミス)も、相棒のマケイブ(ウィリアム・ビル・フィリップス)と一緒にリムロック駅へと急いでいた。ところが、ダフとマケイブが到着すると、駅はシャイアンとアラパホ・インディアンに襲われ、焼き払われていた。ほどなくして、駅馬車も到着し、インディアンたちの動きを警戒した一行は、北へと向かうが、その途中でインディアンの襲撃を受け…。西部劇の小品。一説には、予算10万ドルで、たった6日間で撮り上げられたとも言われている。日本劇場未公開。本作が作られた1956年というのは、TVが興隆し、映画の観客動員数が減少の一途を辿っていた時期。映画草創期からの人気ジャンルであった西部劇も、そのあおりを受け、かつてのような膨大な本数が作られないようになり、その一方で、TV西部劇シリーズが多く作られるようになった。A級スターを起用した大作を除き、映画でのB級、C級の西部劇は、TVというメディアにシフトして行ったと言えるだろう。本作もそんな時期に作られた西部劇の小品だ。面白いのは、スタッフ、キャストともに、主にTV畑で活躍した人材によるもので、いわば、TVから映画への逆輸入ということになる。インディアンに襲撃され、廃墟に追い込まれ運命共同体となった一行の人間模様を描いていて、もちろん、西部劇としての体裁は保っているのだが、どちらかというと、西部劇という背景を借りながら(駅馬車の襲撃、インディアンとの攻防などの場面はあるが)、アクションではなく、異常な状態で、それぞれの登場人物の本性や人間性をあぶり出すことに主眼を置いた密室劇に近い作品になっている。砂金に目がくらみ婚約者を裏切る女性(ただし、ファム・ファタ―ルのような冷たい悪女ではなく、意思薄弱の女性という感じ)、常に息子に厳しい態度を示しながら、実は、自身、臆病者の騎兵隊員、籠城する一行を救うために犠牲的決断をするインディアンの酋長…など、ある種、類型的ではあるものの、アラン・マイナー監督は、それぞれのキャラクターを描き分けて、まとめてみせている。ただ、全体的に映画的な広がりには乏しく、地味なキャスト、77分という短い尺ということもあり、それこそ、TV西部劇の一エピソードのようなこぢんまりとした印象になっている。本DVD-Rは、米MGM/UAの(米20世紀フォックスが販売)のLimited Edition Collectionによるオン・デマンド・DVD-R。徹底的なレストアなどは施されていないマスターを使用しているようで、キズはあるものの、白黒諧調、ディテール表現も比較的良好な画質。音声も、ノイズなどもあるものの、基本的には明瞭だ。英語字幕は未収録。特典などは未収録で、メニュー画面のみというシンプルな作り。チャプター分けは、10分毎。本DVD-Rは、北米盤で、パッケージ裏にも「R-1」と明記されているが、実際は、R-0(=All)なので、日本の通常のR-2 プレーヤーで視聴可能だ。