Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock (1962)

Stagecoach to Dancers’ Rock: Directed by Earl Bellamy. With Warren Stevens, Martin Landau, Jody Lawrance, Don Wilbanks. Six passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver when he discovers that one of them has smallpox.

“Six travelers are on a stagecoach. When the driver discovers one of them has smallpox, he abandons all of them in the middle of the desert.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWell, I didnu0026#39;t see that coming, nor, since I am at home during Coronavirus lockdown as I write this, is this a movie I can write about with my usual arch snarkiness. Itu0026#39;s Earl Bellamy directing one of his 18 theatrical movies amidst an estimated 1600 hours of TV time. As you might expect, itu0026#39;s efficiently directed, but the wide vistas of the California desert are reduced to an unsatisfying black-and-white flatness, more suited to a television screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso, despite some real talent among the actors, including Warren Stevens and Martin Landau, are there any characters for them to sink their teeth into. Itu0026#39;s just half a dozen strangers in the middle of a desert, trying to walk their way out, while worrying about Apaches. Not very interesting.”