Devil’s Doorway
1950  NR  WESTERN  1h 24min
CAST— Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, Edgar Buchanan
MUSIC— Daniele Amfitheatrof  DIRECTOR— Anthony Mann

     Robert Taylor dons the dark makeup to portray a Native American in this entertaining Western morality tale. Civil War vet Taylor returns home to the life of a cattleman. Within a few years, however, sheep herders try settling on his land, land that Taylor has no deed to. He hires a novice lawyer to fight for his cause but everything seems to be stacked against him, simply for the fact that he’s an Indian. The veteran attorney in town makes it his personal mission to rid the valley of Taylor and his people by any means necessary, even resorting to violence. A film showing injustice to the Natives, never boring, and action-packed (if only in the last twenty minutes or so). If only Robert Taylor weren’t so white…
OUR RATING— ** ½