Backlash (1956 film)


Backlash is a 1956 Technicolor film starring Richard Widmark, released by UniversalInternational.

Jim Slater Richard Widmark meets Karyl Orton Donna Reed in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.When Sheriff J. C. Marson Edward Platt questions him, Jim reveals that he is after the person responsible for his fathers death. Jims father and four other men were besieged and killed by Apaches. Jim believes there was a sixth man who got away and could have gone for help, but instead decided he wanted the gold they found all to himself. Marston reveals that one of the men was the brother of the dead deputy. There are two other brothers, who will want revenge. When Jim refuses to leave town, Marston suggests he go see Sergeant George Lake Barton MacLane in Tucson. Lake led the detail that found the massacre victims. ........

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