Fury at Furnace Creek

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Fury at Furnace Creek
Fury at Furnace Creek Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Produced by Fred Kohlmar
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  • Charles G. Booth
  • Winston Miller
Story by David Garth
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Music by David Raksin
Cinematography Harry Jackson
Edited by Robert L. Simpson
Production
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Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
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  • April 30, 1948 (1948-04-30) (USA)
Running time
88 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Fury at Furnace Creek is a 1948 American Western film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, and Reginald Gardiner.[1]

Plot

Troops are massacred at a Furnace Creek fort in 1880 after an army captain, Walsh, cites orders forcing him to abandon a wagon train. Apache Indians hid inside the wagons to gain access to the fort.

General Blackwell is blamed for the incident and court-martialed. Denying that he sent any such order, the general's heart gives out on the witness stand. No written evidence of the order is presented.

One of his sons, Rufe, a captain from West Point, travels west to find out what happened. His brother, Cash, reads of their father's death in a Kansas City newspaper and also heads toward Furnace Creek in search of answers.

Using an alias, Cash learns that Capt. Walsh has become a drunkard. A mining boss, Leverett, is impressed by the stranger in town and hires him, not knowing Cash's real name or intent. Rufe arrives in town and also assumes a false identity.

Cafe waitress Molly Baxter, whose father was killed at the fort, still considers General Blackwell the man to blame. But the real villain is Leverett, who bribed Walsh and organized the Apache raid. A guilty conscience causes Walsh to write a confession. Leverett sends one of his henchmen to do away with Walsh, but the confession is found by Cash.

Rufe is framed, arrested and tried, but escapes. Cash gives him the confession and tells him to take it to the Army as proof. Wounded in a gunfight with Leverett but victorious, Cash recovers and reads in the paper about the proof of General Blackwell's innocence.

Cast

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Promotional still for the film with Glenn Langan and Coleen Gray
  • Victor Mature as Cash Blackwell
  • Coleen Gray as Molly Baxter
  • Glenn Langan as Rufe Blackwell
  • Reginald Gardiner as Captain Walsh
  • Albert Dekker as Leverett
  • Fred Clark as Bird
  • Charles Kemper as Peaceful Jones
  • Robert Warwick as Gen. Fletcher Blackwell
  • George Cleveland as Judge
  • Roy Roberts as Al Shanks
  • Willard Robertson as Gen. Leads
  • Griff Barnett as Appleby

References

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