Fort Utah

1/10/2017

Utah Saints. Fort Utah is directed by Lesley Selander and written by Steve Fisher and Andrew Craddock. It stars John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Robert Strauss, Scott Brady, John Russell, Richard Arlen and James Craig. Music is by Jimmie Haskell and cinematography is by Lothrop Worth. Drifter Tom Horn (Ireland) teams up with Indian Agent Ben Stokes (Strauss) to help a pioneer wagon train against army deserters and Indian renegades. Filmed in Technicolor/Techniscope out at Vasquez Rocks and Santa Clarita in California, Fort Utah, in spite of being shot in 1966, feels like a 1950s Oater. Of course the big giveaway is that the headliners in the cast are more long in the tooth than back in the day. Yet collectively they have produced a a very decent Oater with old fashioned value. T

5/4/2026

John Ireland was a perfectly competent supporting actor, but as a lead he proves a bit lacking here. "Horn" is a bit of a rootless wanderer, famed for his prowess with a gun, who teams up with reservation agent "Stokes" (Robert Strauss) amidst an uprising from the local Indians who have had just about enough of the constant stream of "pioneers" traipsing over their territory - and who are also being goaded into mischief by "Dajin" (Scott Brady) and his squadron of army defectors who have an agenda all of their own. When the pair come across the seemingly abandoned Fort Utah, things come to a bit of an early head and from then on there is a fairly constant stream of fisticuffs, gun totin' and a bedraggled wagon train that provides some romantic interest from a typically flat Virginia Mayo w