• Rating:
• Genre: Western
• Movie Type: Traditional Western
• Themes: Starting Over, Heroic Mission
• Director: Lesley Selander
• Main Cast: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady
• Release Year: 1967
• Country: US
• Run Time: 87 minutes

Plot

Producer A.C. Lyles managed to do quite well for himself in the 1960s by making low-budget westerns crammed full of familiar faces whose stock in the film industry had slipped a bit. Starring in Arizona Bushwackers were such celebrities of yesteryear as Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady, Brian Donlevy, Barton MacLane and James Craig. Keel is cast as a Confederate POW who is pardoned when he agrees to patrol the West on behalf of the Union. Assigned to a wide-open Arizona town, he stands up to such disreputable types as a crooked sheriff (MacLane) and saloon-owner Ireland. When legal means fail, the ex-POW resorts to six-guns and fists to keep the peace. Yvonne De Carlo's part was to have been played by Betty Hutton, but the latter actress could not adapt to A.C. Lyles' "get it right on the first take" approach. Arizona Bushwackers may be cheaply made, but it is consummately acted by its strong ensemble cast and sturdily directed by Leslie Selander. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Howard Keel - Lee Travis
• Yvonne De Carlo - Jill Wyler
• John Ireland - Dan Shelby
• Marilyn Maxwell - Molly
• Scott Brady - Tom Rile

Brian Donlevy - Maj.Smith; James Craig - Ike Clanton; Regis Parton - Curly; Montie Montana - Stage Driver; Eric Cody - Bushwhacker; James Cagney; Barton MacLane - Sheriff Lloyd Grover; Roy Rogers

Credit

Dale Hutchinson - First Assistant Director; Steve Fisher - Screen Story; Steve Fisher - Screenwriter; Jimmie Haskell - Composer (Music Score); A.C. Lyles - Producer; Hal Pereira - Art Director; Al Y. Roelofs - Art Director; John Schreyer - Editor; Lesley Selander - Director; Lester Shorr - Cinematographer; Andrew Craddock - Screen Story; John K. Wilkinson - Sound/Sound Designer