Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Wordiezett So much average

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

bkoganbing Dakota Incident has to be one of the strangest westerns I've ever seen. Not good, but definitely strange.A driver-less stagecoach rides into the town of Christian Flats with all passengers killed. It's scheduled to go on, but very few for obvious reasons want to risk the Cheyennes on the warpath out there. But Linda Darnell, Regis Toomey, John Lund, Whit Bissell, and Ward Bond each have their reasons for going on. And Dale Robertson who killed John Doucette in a gunfight after Doucette and Skip Homeier shot and left him for dead in the desert, is so anxious to go he's willing to drive the team.Of course the Cheyennes attack the intrepid group of passengers if forced into a dry wash for cover. Who will live and who will die is the remainder of the film.Dakota Incident came at the very end of Republic Pictures before Herbert J. Yates pulled the plug on his little studio. Westerns were their specialty, but normally of the kind Roy Rogers made. This would not have been a Rogers product. In fact it's beyond belief. The characters aren't ground in any kind of reality. Whit Bissell is taking back ore samples from his claim, but Robertson discovers it's iron pyrites, fool's gold. Toomey is a guitar playing cynic who goes mad from thirst. Darnell is after a cheating manager of her's, but really doesn't know what to do when she finds him. Lund is looking to bring in Robertson who committed a crime he took the rap for, but has to bring him in alive. For that he'd require help, but doesn't have any.But the worst is Ward Bond who's a United States Senator on his own peace mission to the Cheyennes. In real life Bond was a most right wing individual and I'm not sure this wasn't some kind of a caricature of what he would perceive as a liberal. He's really quite the fatuous fool, but I think that might have attracted him to the role.I tried to get into Dakota Incident, but couldn't. And the ending was a bizarre fantasy to say the least.Give it three stars for the cast involved.

Poseidon-3 It would be easy to dismiss this low-budget, little-known film as just another western oater, but actually it has more to offer than one might expect. Robertson plays a bank robber who is shot down and left to die in the desert by his two cronies. He catches up to them in a run-down little town where several folks are waiting to board the stagecoach. Here he runs into Darnell, a famous dance hall performer and Bond, a preachy, pompous senator, among others. When the threat of Indians causes the stage line to halt passage, Robinson and Lund decide to drive it across the terrain with Bond, Darnell, Toomey (Darnell's musical cohort) and Bissell (a prospecting Easterner) as the passengers. The trip is eventful, to say the least, when the water supply runs low and the Cherokee attack from the hills. The film is like a mini "Stagecoach" with the disparate people who all seem to have mission or a connection. While it can't touch that legendary film, it still offers a lot in the way of solid acting, tart dialogue and visual appeal. Robinson (who looks and sounds a bit like Clark Gable at times) gives a decent enough performance in the lead role. Darnell (in a memorably eye-popping red dress) is beautiful and assured in one of her last roles. Lund's character is meant to be stoic, but he's downright wooden. The other actors all bring their particular brand of character skills to the picture. Even though the story is sometimes pat and trite, and the "Indians" are very unconvincing in their authenticity, there is some good tension and conflict within the film. There are also a couple of surprises along the way concerning the connections between the characters. Fans of Robertson might enjoy the bath he takes in a horse trough and Darnell admirers will have plenty to gaze upon as well. It's not a masterpiece, but it's an engaging way to spend an hour and half, especially for western fans.

popgun9 Dakota Incident is a curiosity for several reasons. It will be obvious from the start that it was made long before anyone ever thought of political correctness. Although, the Ward Bond character softens the edge with "maybe we can communicate with them, after all they're humans, too" type of dialogue. His part stands side-by-side with the preacher attemtping to communicate with the Martians in War of the Worlds. In fact, it's uncanny. The title is curious too. Use of the word "Incident" contributes an importance and sophistication to the film that probably didn't hurt boxoffice. The contrived assortment of characters and Linda Darnell's fancy dress and hat are wonderful dated touches that make Dakota Incident a cool western artifact from the mid-fifties.

Clarence Abernathy A widely unknown strange little western with mindblowing colours (probably the same material as it was used in "Johnny Guitar", I guess "Trucolor" or something, which makes blood drips look like shining rubies), nearly surrealistic scenes with twisted action and characters. Something different, far from being a masterpiece, but there should be paid more attention to this little gem in western encyclopedias.