Uploaded by northbreed1 on May 31, 2008
[Please read] In the Western "Dakota Incident" (Republic Pictures/1956), sweet, buxom Linda Darnell plays entertainer Amy Clarke. In the small town of Christian Flats, she is waiting for a stagecoach enroute to Laramie, Wyoming, where her lover absconded with her money. Veteran character actor (and inveterate ogler of women in real life-—according to Harry Carey, Jr.) Ward Bond portrays visiting U.S. Senator Blakely, a grandiloquent man committed over-optimistically to promoting peaceful "white-man/Indian" relations. He also "digs" Amy Clarke, who must constantly rebuff his advances. Reliable Western lead Dale Robertson appears as John Banner, on the lam from a bank heist. Actor John Lund also participates. Filmed on location at California's Red Rock Canyon State Park, "Dakota Incident" follows these principals as they travel by stage through hostile Indian Territory, suffer a wreck, and take apparently hopeless refuge in a dry gulch at the foot of some steep ridges manned by rifle-toting Cheyennes.
Director Lewis Foster—who, interestingly, had previously won an Oscar in 1940 for his original story of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)—keeps the dramatic tension well-balanced between man-vs.-man, man-vs.-nature, and man-vs.-himself. Gifted cinematographer Ernest Haller—who, also in 1940, shared with Ray Rennahan a Best Color Cinematography Oscar for "Gone with the Wind" (1939)—lent a poetic touch to his "pastel" shots of both cast and landscape, by day and night.
"Dakota Incident"—though outstanding neither for its character development nor plot resolution (nor yet its sense of life)—is worth watching for its interesting dramatic tension and its visual grace—the latter owing not a little to the presence of Miss Linda Darnell.
This YouTube video is primarily a tribute to Linda Darnell; accordingly, it opens with a "roll call" of several of her most significant film appearances—many of which were American-West-related. Secondarily, this video is a good-natured elbow-jab at Ward Bond, whose own film appearances I always welcome.
If it hasn't occurred by the time you read this: would you like to see "Dakota Incident" restored and released on DVD? Please petition the studio!
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Thanks for viewing. This video is dedicated in memory of Linda Darnell who must have been one neat gal.
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Laugh out loud!!! I love it!! Great editing job!! Enjoyed watching very much! The "Duke" knew old Ward pretty good, seems like!
Ms. Darnell is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in all my 60 years!
She was already gone by the time I was 15. Rest in Peace, Sweet Monetta.
GPa2010 10 months ago
Linda Darnell Sublimissime Pour Toujours !
jg0582 1 year ago
Fashions change but not Politicians.
gugenheim84 1 year ago
The most beautiful woman I´ve ever seen in Hollywood, but she was treated so bady there later
Coptic78 3 years ago
She is very,very beautiful...
howveryverydareyou 3 years ago