Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)

Ambush at Cimarron Pass: Directed by Jodie Copelan. With Scott Brady, Margia Dean, Clint Eastwood, Irving Bacon. In 1867, a Yankee patrol joins forces with a group of ex-Confederate soldiers in order to cross Apache territory and reach the nearest fort.

“Before signing as ramrod Rowdy Yates in Rawhide, Clint Eastwood did a variety of films some of them better than others which if it werenu0026#39;t for his presence they would be obscure and forgotten. Ambush At Cimarron Pass falls in that category.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat Eastwood has is star presence, you can absolutely tell this man was going to have a future in the movie business just looking at him. Not that his character was anything special, someone else described him as petulant and Iu0026#39;m inclined to agree.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSergeant Scott Brady and a small band of cavalry troopers are escorting Indian gun runner Breton Baynes and a lot of those valuable repeating rifles that he was about to sell to the Apaches. They run across a band of former Confederates, one of them being Clint Eastwood. Later on to make things interesting they pick up Margia Dean stranded out on the prairie courtesy of the Indians.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter that itu0026#39;s just one western cliché after another, nothing terribly original, just the same plot situations that have been done a gazillion times before. Along with the Confederates is Irving Bacon who says heu0026#39;s a judge, Scott Brady doubts it, pretty soon everyone else is also. Heu0026#39;s trying to save his own skin, but there seems to be no real rhyme or reason to his character at all. When heu0026#39;s killed nobody mourns.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOther than itu0026#39;s listed in the body of work of a cinema legend, Ambush At Cimarron Pass would be lost to history. Clint Eastwood wishes it were.”