Western

The Great Sioux Uprising

- For the scarlet lips of a traitor's woman - he stood alone - against the mighty Chief Red Cloud and the scalp-hungry hordes at his command!

During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union just as Cook decides to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate opposes Cook’s unscrupulous methods as well as being Cook’s rival for the affections of Joan. It seems Westgate is the only one able to prevent a new Indian war.

Release Date : 1953-07-17

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Universal International Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Jonathan Westgate

Original Name : Jeff Chandler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joan Britton

Original Name : Faith Domergue

Gender : Female

Character Name : Stephen Cook

Original Name : Lyle Bettger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ahab Jones

Original Name : Peter Whitney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)

Original Name : Stacy Harris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joe Baird

Original Name : Walter Sande

Gender : Male

Character Name : Major McKay

Original Name : Stephen Chase

Gender : Male

Character Name : Red Cloud

Original Name : John War Eagle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stand Watie

Original Name : Glenn Strange

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gist

Original Name : Charles Arnt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Heyoka

Original Name : Julia Montoya

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sgt. Manners

Original Name : Ray Bennett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Teo-Ka-Ha

Original Name : Dewey Drapeau

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ray (as Boyd Red Morgan)

Original Name : Boyd 'Red' Morgan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lee

Original Name : Lane Bradford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sam

Original Name : Jack Ingram

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jake

Original Name : Clem Fuller

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Sioux Convention. Directed by Lloyd Bacon and collectively written by Melvin Levy, J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater. Starring Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney and Stacy Harris. The grand title sadly doesn't match what is actually put on screen, since Bacon's film is more a thinker than a thugger. Plot has Chandler as an ex-Union surgeon who takes up with ranchers and Indians in fighting the good cause against Bettger's horse baron and nefarious rebel rousers. Undeniably the intentions and thought as per the screenplay are honourable, the anti-racist currents coupled with thematics involving the false deals laid at the Native American's doors, these are interestingly played and keep the pic from sinking below an average level. Action is in short supply, but there are moments of muscular brawn and bravado, while the Oregon locations and Technicolor photography (Maury Gertsman) provide pleasing surroundings. Chandler and Bettger get roles for which they were known and suited, but Domergue - radiant in that "just made love" look she had - just ends up as more token interest than the feisty intelligent business woman that the story threatens to unleash. Whitney and Harris deliver good foil as stoic friend and unscrupulous fiend respectively. While John War Eagle and Glenn Strange offer up a firm backbone in the secondary support slots. The story and ideas have been done far better in far more well known Westerns, thus rendering this as hardly essential. But some merit exists and for Chandler and Bettger fans it's a decent time waster. 6/10