Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

drystyx This isn't a "terrible movie", but it's a very mundane Western. The hugest problem is the contrivance of characters. Clint Walker is the essential hero, but not just that, he's pretty much Superman. Of course his physique does give this impression to begin with, but it loses the male audience with the "demi god" nature. Brian Keith plays a bit better role as a more convincing bad guy. He's got a few more dimensions than the hero, but not much. He's still more a "one dimension and a half bad guy", though not as corny as modern movie bad guys. There just isn't much going for this movie. It's simply mundane. We don't hate the characters, but we really don't care one way or the other. Kind of a waste.

gordonl56 FORT DOBBS – 1958This Warner Brothers duster stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo and Brian Keith. Twenty minutes in and I thought I was watching a re-hash of the John Wayne classic, HONDO. Same idea, but it takes a different tact with Walker as a man running from the law for a killing. He flees out into the badlands to escape the posse in pursuit. He manages to throw off the posse but is soon mixed up with a group of upset Indians, and a woman, Virginia Mayo and her young son, Richard Eyer. The rampaging Comanche burn out Mayo's ranch and the three are soon heading for a nearby fort. On the trail they run into gunrunner, Brian Keith. Keith is hauling 100 of the latest repeating rifle to Santa Fe. Needless to say the man is a swine and makes moves on Mayo. Walker steps in and sends Keith on his way. Complicating matters is that Mayo thinks Walker might have killed her husband. They make it to the fort but find the garrison has been overran and wiped out by an earlier Comanche attack. Then a group of civilians on the run from the Comanche, show up at the fort looking for shelter. Among these folks is the Sheriff who had been chasing Walker. They manage to beat off several mass attacks but are running low on ammo. Walker sneaks out to try and go for help. He meets up with Keith and his cargo of rifles again. He suggests that Keith bring the rifles to the fort to help in defense of same. Keith is not happy with that idea and goes for his gun. Walker is quicker off the draw and Keith goes down. Walker manages to get the rifles back to Fort Dobbs just as the Indians are massing for a large attack. The extra firepower does the trick and the Comanche are driven off with heavy losses. The Sheriff looks the other way as Walker strikes out for Santa Fe with Mayo and Eyer. He figures everyone owes Walker their lives.

Spikeopath Fort Dobbs is directed by Gordon Douglas and written by George W. George and Burt Kennedy. It stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Brian Keith, Richard Eyer, Russ Conway and Michael Dante. Music is by Max Steiner and cinematography by William H. Clothier.After his appealing run in the TV series Cheyenne, it was inevitable that Clint Walker would make the transition to big screen fare. Here for his first feature length outing, we get the marker for his career that would follow. Never blessed with great acting talent, Walker was however a mighty presence, and handsome to boot, and he is the prime reason why Fort Dobbs is a better than average experience.Plot basically has Walker as Gar Davis, a fugitive of justice who hooks up for a travelogue with Celia Grey (Mayo) and her son Chad (Eyer). Along the way there is Comanche peril, shifty companionship in the form of Clett (Keith) and a cunning twist that strains the relationship between Gar and the Greys. The wonderful Henry Repeater Rifle comes into play, very much so, and it provides some kinetic excitement, and it all builds to a rousing finale of explosions and stunts, while of course redemption and the truths will out. Clothier and Steiner further cement their reputations as skilled craftsmen, with the former beautifully realising the Kanab locations in black and white, and Douglas knows his way around a good honest Oater. 7/10

joeparkson I think Clint Walker (or his agent) had thoughts of being the next John Wayne. This movie is very similar to "Hondo" 1953 which starred John Wayne. Stranger with a past shows up at a farmhouse occupied by a woman and her son, but the husband is missing. Stranger is attracted to woman and becomes a surrogate dad for the son.The writing in this movie is not as good as in "Hondo", which had moments of pure poetry.There's no romance between Walker and Mayo; Walker doesn't even try. Why, I don't know. Virginia Mayo is a beautiful woman though older than Walker. Walker does take his shirt off, which was probably required in his contract for every movie he ever made. Maybe she should have made a play for him. Other reviewers have said that it might have been unseemly for Walker & Mayo to have a romance, but Wayne got right down to business in "Hondo". He told that woman how she smelled and how he could find her in the dark. And that was before her husband died. Wayne didn't even have to take his shirt off.Ironically, the charismatic bad guy played by Brian Keith, makes a very frank play for Mayo.Finally, the Indians here are not given the depth of characterization they had in "Hondo". They're more like very bad weather.The boy, is well played by Richard Eyer. Unlike most child actors, he's not annoying.This could have been a much better movie. I've seen all the actors do better in other movies, and the director Gordon Douglas, though not a great director, has done better movies. Perhaps if Walker's part had been written with less politeness and more menace, it would have been a more interesting movie.