Western

Fury at Furnace Creek

The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.

Release Date : 1948-04-30

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Cash Blackwell / Tex Cameron

Original Name : Victor Mature

Gender : Male

Character Name : Molly Baxter

Original Name : Coleen Gray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Capt. Rufe Blackwell / Sam Gilmore

Original Name : Glenn Langan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Grover A. Walsh

Original Name : Reginald Gardiner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Edward Leverett

Original Name : Albert Dekker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bird

Original Name : Fred Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peaceful Jones

Original Name : Charles Kemper

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gen. Fletcher Blackwell

Original Name : Robert Warwick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judge

Original Name : George Cleveland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Al Shanks

Original Name : Roy Roberts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gen. Leads

Original Name : Willard Robertson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Appleby

Original Name : Griff Barnett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pops Murphy (uncredited)

Original Name : J. Farrell MacDonald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Little Dog (uncredited)

Original Name : Jay Silverheels

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trial Spectator (uncredited)

Original Name : Cap Somers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sergeant (uncredited)

Original Name : Ray Teal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stranger (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert B. Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clerk (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Carter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jose Artego (uncredited)

Original Name : Charles Stevens

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Rufe and Cash. Fury at Furnace Creek is directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and collectively written by Charles G. Booth, Winston Miller and David Garth. It stars Victor Mature, Glenn Langan, Coleen Gray, Albert Dekker and Reginald Gardiner. Music is by David Raksin and cinematography by Harry Jackson. When General Blackwell (Robert Warwick) is accused of instigating an Apache massacre, he refutes the allegation so strongly in court he keels over and dies. With the family name tarnished, the estranged Blackwell brothers (Mature and Langan) must put aside their differences to hopefully unearth the truth and clear their father's name. Nice. Without bringing new dimensions to this formula of plotting, Fury at Furnace Creek is stylish and doesn't take the easy narrative options so prevalent in other Westerns of the 40s. Sure, the standard action quotient is adhered to, with Apache attack, pursuits, saloon shoot-out and the good versus bad finale, but screenplay and scripting has an intelligence about it; and the cast performances coupled with Jackson's shadowy infused black and white photography, make this well worthy of a look by the Western faithful. 7/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-09

When a general gives an order to divert a military escort from a wagon train to the remote Fort Furnace Creek, the Apache leader "Little Dog" sees his chance to reduce everything to rubble... The horrified authorities proceed to court-martial the general, but he dies on the witness stand and it falls to his two, estranged, sons, to get to the bottom of this mystery. One, "Rufe" (Glenn Lankan) a soldier; the other "Cash" (Victor Mature) an astute gambler handy with his six-gun. The latter gets to the town where one of the chief witnesses against his father "Capt. Walsh" (Reginald Gardiner) has take refuge in the bottle. Clearly seeing he has something on his mind, "Cash" attempts to find out what. The arrival of the other brother, the murder of "Walsh" and a note that might clear things up all feature as the story comes to an head - appropriately, in the burnt out ruins of the fort. It's a solid, action-packed adventure that gives Mature a chance to be more than the usual swarthy, sandalled hero. Coleen Grey ("Molly") introduces the tiniest element of romance, but nothing to clutter the quickly-paced plot that amalgamates just about every theme from the genre. Some effort has been put into the production, and I quite enjoyed it.