

Western
Red Mountain
Love and Life Were Cheap...When QUANTRELL'S RAIDERS Blazed a Trail of Terror Across the West!
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.
Top Cast

Alan Ladd
Capt. Brett Sherwood

Lizabeth Scott
Chris

Arthur Kennedy
Lane Waldron

John Ireland
Gen. William Quantrill

Jeff Corey
Sgt. Skee

James Bell
Dr. Terry

Bert Freed
Sgt. Randall

Walter Sande
Benjie
Directed by
William Dieterle
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
5/14/2026
Quantrell and his raiders provided loads of stories for civil war themed westerns, and this time he has been promoted to general and provides the inspiration for disaffected "Capt. Sherwood" (Alan Ladd) who is determined to continue the war in the only place where it was still possible for the Confederacy to win. The west. The general - called "Quantrill" here (John Ireland) is working with the local Indians to build on their own resentment of the settling pioneers in the hope that they will help him to defeat the bluecoats. Meantime, "Sherwood" is no saint, and as he heads to his new command we realise that he had killed a dodgy assay official - which we see, obscurely, at the start - then has to rescue the wrongly blamed "Waldron" (Arthur Kennedy) from the ensuing lynch mob. With him and
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