Cinema: Three Up, Three Down

Three new pictures prove that a western's a western, whether filmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota or amid the hot springs and boiling mud of New Zealand.

Chief Crazy Horse (Universal-International) pays a Technicolor installment on Hollywood's mountain of debt to the American Indian: after years of getting clobbered, the redskins this time win three battles in a row over the U.S. cavalry. What's more, the embattled Sioux are given Victor Mature as their peerless leader, but sad to say, when silhouetted against the sky in war paint and feathers, Mature looks more like an aggrieved turtle than an eagle...

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