Backlash
Was The SIXTH MAN The Secret To The Five Empty Graves?...the Answer waited in a woman's lips and watched from the shadows of a frightened town!
Overview
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
- Budget
- $1,025,000
- Production
- Universal International Pictures
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Cast
Richard Widmark
Jim Slater
Donna Reed
Karyl Orton
William Campbell
Johnny Cool
John McIntire
Jim Bonniwell / William Slater
Barton MacLane
Sergeant George Lake
Harry Morgan
Tony Welker
Robert J. Wilke
Jeff Welker
Jack Lambert
Benton
Roy Roberts
Major Carson
Edward Platt
Sheriff J.C. Marson
Robert Foulk
Sheriff John F. Olson
Phil Chambers
Deputy Sheriff Dobbs
Gregg Barton
Sleepy
Fred Graham
Ned McCloud
Frank Chase
Cassidy
Chris Alcaide
Dick Lawrence (uncredited)
Johnny Carpenter
Rider (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Pot Luck (uncredited)
Rex Lease
Sergeant Blane (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- John Sturges
- Writers
- Borden Chase
- Producers
- Aaron Rosenberg
- Cinematography
- Irving Glassberg
- Composer
- Herman Stein
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John Chard
February 10, 2017
There's things a man has to know and has to do, and it's best that he does them alone. Backlash (1956) is directed by John Sturges and adapted by Borden Chase from the novel written by Frank Gruber. It stars Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, John McIntire & William Campbell. It's shot in Technicolor by Irving Glassberg on location in Tuscon, Arizona. 1870 Arizona, and Jim Slater (Widmark) is searching for the truth about what happened to his father during the Apache ambush at Gila Valley. This …
Wuchak
March 8, 2025
**_Colorful Western marred by eye-rolling 50’s Hollywood-isms_** After a man and a woman meet in Gila Valley in southern Arizona (Richard Widmark and Donna Reed), they eventually discern that they’re both looking for the mystery survivor of an Apache massacre who made off with a stolen fortune (John McIntire). “Backlash” (1956) has vibrant Southwestern locations and the staples of gunfights, stagecoaches, wraith-like Indian attacks, a salty calvary sergeant (Barton MacLane), saloons and a …