
Chato's Land
1972


“Blazing a New Trail of Courage!”
10 votes
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
Director
Maury DexterWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A

OK, so this isn’t a very good film and there do appear to be a few scenes from others really obviously intercut into it, but I thought James Mitchum, Alana Ladd and Jody McCrae did fine in this entirely derivative adventure western. A payroll has been pinched, a loved-up couple have eloped, a posse has been formed to track them down and there are some marauding Apache. What’s not to like? It was “Duane” (Gary Conway) who led the raid on the loot. It’s “Coe” (Mitchum) and “Lily” (Ladd) who have done the absconding and it’s her father “Jesse” (Robert Lowery) who assumes she has been kidnapped an…
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