Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

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

edwagreen Pretty bad film with a whole host of stars done in by an unusually poor script.Everyone is seeking vengeance here. Edmond O'Brien comes in towards the end of the film. He is an ex-Confederate soldier seeking vengeance by planning an attack on the 2nd anniversary of Lee's surrender to Grant. He really should have left well enough alone.No wonder no one ever heard of Wende Wagner after this film. With a credit like this behind her, nobody would bother to want to remember.Franciosa's character is one that Gilbert Roland would have played in the real old days. He's conflicted here and that's why he ends up with a bullet.Richard Boone seeks vengeance for a lost wife and child. Stuart Whitman is just about in for the ride to Mexico. A very bad film with little to no meaning.

Tony Bush For it's time, a remarkably grim and violent Hollywood western. It almost seems to sense the impending arrival of Leone and Peckinpah in it's blurring of the boundaries between good and evil and presenting the audience with conflicting characters beset by dubious motivations. In fact, it seems to bridge the gap in a transitional way between the old style of western and the newer, harsher, more explicit breed that was just around the corner.Richard Boone gives a powerhouse performance as an alcoholic ex-Confederate major on a personal mission to kill as many Apache as possible. The film opens with him clinically and precisely taking out an Indian burial party with a rifle. Sort of sets the tone. Boone ends up sidetracked into guiding Whitman's disgraced cavalry officer in pursuit of a rogue Confederate general supplying the Indians with rifles. It's an uneasy alliance played out in a doom-laden atmosphere of distrust and danger. There are some moments that still have the power to shock - Boone putting the ravaged white woman out of her misery at point blank range, the death of the rescued baby, etc.An overlooked classic, also featuring Jim Brown in his debut and Anthony Franciosa. Plenty of action and chewing of scenery, but it's really Boone's show all the way. He was a character actor par excellence and dominates every scene he appears in.

Jeff (actionrating.com) See it – This unheralded western classic is filled to the brim with rousing action. It has probably gone under the radar because it lacks a big name actor. But Richard Boone, Jim Brown, and Stuart Whitman are great in this old-fashioned, cowboys-on-a-mission movie in the same vein as "The Professionals." The mission in this one is to prevent Confederate desperadoes from selling repeating rifles to the Apaches. It's a little weird to see classic film villain Richard Boone as a good guy, but he carries the movie pretty well. The musical score is really good, and most of the movie has that "chase western" feel to it. But when things slow down at the end, you will only have enough time to take a deep breath before one of the best movie endings in the western genre.

MARIO GAUCI A large-scale if little-known Western which has several connections to the John Wayne vehicle, THE COMANCHEROS (1961) – the same studio (Fox), the same co-star (Stuart Whitman), the same screenwriter (Clair Huffaker), the same composer (Jerry Goldsmith) and, above all, a similar plot line (rifles belonging to the U.S. army are being stolen and sold by a band of renegades to the Indians) – but is sufficiently different in tone and approach to stand on its own considerable merits.The film is admirably served by a terrific cast: Richard Boone (in one of his best roles as a man hardened by the Apaches' massacre of his family), Anthony Franciosa (a surprising Golden Globe nominee as a charming Mexican rogue, but whose duplicity sees him killed halfway through the picture), Whitman (as the nominal hero, he's basically playing the part John Wayne had in THE COMANCHEROS!), Jim Brown (as Whitman's black lieutenant; watching this, I was reminded of 100 RIFLES [1969] – another Western of his that I recently acquired but have yet to catch up with), Edmond O'Brien (a relatively small but typically vigorous role as the Confederate Colonel waging his own private Civil War two years after the conflict ended) and Rodolfo Acosta (as the Apache chief and Boone's sworn enemy); it only lacks a substantial female presence (restricted to a young Indian squaw they meet on the way).The terrific climax sees Boone, Whitman and Brown eventually being captured and tortured by the Apaches with the Southern rebels looking on, but they are eventually freed by the squaw who has grown to respect them; subsequently, both Boone (who manages to settle his score with Acosta) and Brown are killed and the film closes with O'Brien seeing his dream of glorious reprisal literally go up in flames.Given that several minor Westerns have, thankfully, already been released on DVD, it is quite baffling why RIO CONCHOS is as yet unavailable on this format and, in fact, for my two viewings of the film so far, I've had to make do with Italian-dubbed TV screenings which, at least, presented the film in the correct 'Scope aspect ratio.