Apache Trail

Apache Trail

The Apaches are Coming!...and a group of whites, joined by fate, battle for survival!

NR 1942 · 66 min · ★ 6.9 · Romance, Western

The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.

Directed by Richard Thorpe · Written by Ernest Haycox

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Lloyd Nolan Trigger Bill Folliard
Donna Reed Rosalia Martinez
William Lundigan Tom Folliard
Ann Ayars Constance Selden
Connie Gilchrist Señora Martinez
Chill Wills 'Pike' Skelton
Miles Mander James V. Thorne
Gloria Holden Mrs. James V. Thorne
Ray Teal Ed Cotton
Grant Withers 'Les' Lestrade
Fuzzy Knight Juke
Trevor Bardette Amber

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