Duel at Diablo

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Duel at Diablo
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Produced by Fred Engel
Ralph Nelson
Written by Marvin H. Albert
Michael M. Grilikhes
Starring James Garner
Sidney Poitier
Music by Neal Hefti
Cinematography Charles F. Wheeler
Editing by Fredric Steinkamp
Distributed by United Artists
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) Flag of the United States June 15, 1966
Running time 103 min.
Country US
Language English
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Duel at Diablo is a 1966 western film starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Based on Marvin H. Albert's novel Apache Rising, the film was written by Albert and Michael M. Grilikhes and directed by Ralph Nelson. The supporting cast includes Bibi Andersson, Bill Travers, and Dennis Weaver. The movie was shot on location in Utah.

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While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (James Garner), rescues Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange (Dennis Weaver). The couple have been on the move since two years before Ellen Grange had been kidnapped by Apaches and rescued. The townsfolk treated her as an outcast because, in captivity, she had a child by an Indian warrior.

Jess is searching for the murderers of his Comanche wife. He travels to Fort Concho to obtain information from the town marshal. On the way there, he is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry unit bringing horses, soldiers and supplies to the fort. Willard, Ellen, and her infant son are along for the ride, as is horse trader Toller (Sidney Poitier), a veteran of the 10th Cavalry (the "Buffalo Soldiers").

The party is trapped in a canyon by Chata, an Apache chief and grandfather of Ellen's baby. Willard is captured and tortured mercilessly. Jess sneaks away and brings reinforcements from the fort just in time to save the day. At the fort, Jess had learned that the man he has been hunting is none other than Willard Grange, out for revenge for what was done to his wife. He finds Willard, tied to a wagon wheel and barely alive. When Willard begs him to put him out of his misery, Jess gives him his pistol and leaves.

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