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* FakeNationality: The main Cheyenne roles are played by Creator/RicardoMontalban, Creator/DoloresDelRio and Gilbert Roland (all born in Mexico), plus Victor Jory (born in Canada to American parents) and Sal Mineo (from The Bronx), while the remainder of the tribe are played by Navajos who lived around Monument Valley.

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* FakeNationality: The main Cheyenne roles are played by Creator/RicardoMontalban, Creator/DoloresDelRio and Gilbert Roland (all born in Mexico), plus Victor Jory Creator/VictorJory (born in Canada to American parents) and Sal Mineo (from The Bronx), while the remainder of the tribe are played by Navajos who lived around Monument Valley.
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** Blonde bombshell Carroll Baker as prim Quaker {{Schoolmarm}} Deborah.

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** Blonde bombshell Carroll Baker Creator/CarrollBaker as prim Quaker {{Schoolmarm}} Deborah.
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** Creator/JohnFord wanted Creator/AnthonyQuinn to play Dull Knife. He also suggested Creator/WoodyStrode for a role. The studio insisted on Ford's casting Creator/RicardoMontalban.

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** Creator/JohnFord wanted Creator/AnthonyQuinn to play Dull Knife.Knife and Creator/RichardBoone to play Little Wolf. He also suggested Creator/WoodyStrode for a role. The studio insisted on Ford's casting Creator/RicardoMontalban.
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** Karl Malden, who tended to play admirable, if gruff, [[TheEveryman Everymen]], in a rare villain role as Captain Wessels.

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** Karl Malden, Creator/KarlMalden, who tended to play admirable, if gruff, [[TheEveryman Everymen]], in a rare villain role as Captain Wessels.
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** Ford offered Creator/JeffreyHunter the role of Second Lieutenant Scott, but he turned it down in favour of the television series ''Temple Houston'', which was cancelled after one season.

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** Ford offered Creator/JeffreyHunter the role of Second Lieutenant Scott, but he turned it down in favour of the television series ''Temple Houston'', which was cancelled after one season. Patrick Wayne ended up in the role (making him the [[Creator/JohnWayne Wayne family's]] representative in Ford's last Western).
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** Ford offered Creator/JeffreyHunter the role of Second Lieutenant Scott, but he turned it down in favour of the television series ''Temple Houston'', which was cancelled after one season.

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* ThoseTwoActors: The stars of ''Film/BabyDoll'', Carroll Baker and Karl Malden, are reunited here but never interact with one another.

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* ThoseTwoActors: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/JohnFord wanted Creator/AnthonyQuinn to play Dull Knife. He also suggested Creator/WoodyStrode for a role.
The stars of ''Film/BabyDoll'', studio insisted on Ford's casting Creator/RicardoMontalban.
** The usually puritanical Ford contemplated filming a nude scene with
Carroll Baker and Karl Malden, are reunited here bathing in a river, but never interact with one another.ultimately it wasn't shot.
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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/JimmyStewart is sometimes listed as a main star of the film, but he's only onscreen for around ten minutes, in the famously [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment disconnected]] Dodge City sequence that was cut from some prints.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Creator/JohnFord initially conceived the film as a smaller drama with non-professional Native American actors, but by the time it got greenlighted it had become an EpicMovie that would feature well-known stars.
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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/SpencerTracy was originally cast as Carl Schurz, but left due to illness and was replaced by Creator/EdwardGRobinson. Oddly, Robinson would replace Tracy again for the exact same reason in ''Film/TheCincinnatiKid'' the next year.
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* FakeNationality: The main Cheyenne roles are played by Creator/RicardoMontalban, Creator/DoloresDelRio and Gilbert Roland (all born in Mexico), plus Victor Jory (born in Canada to American parents) and Sal Mineo (from The Bronx), while the remainder of the tribe are played by Navajos who lived around Monument Valley.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Blonde bombshell Carroll Baker as prim Quaker {{Schoolmarm}} Deborah.
** Karl Malden, who tended to play admirable, if gruff, [[TheEveryman Everymen]], in a rare villain role as Captain Wessels.
** In the opposite direction of Malden, Mike Mazurki usually played tough guy villains but has the role of the jolly Sgt. Wachowski.
** Ken Curtis specialized in amusing, likable hayseeds like Festus Haggen on ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' and Charlie [=McCorry=] in ''Film/TheSearchers'', but here he's a {{Jerkass}} cowboy who kills a Cheyenne scout looking for food ForTheEvulz and scalps him.
* ThoseTwoActors: The stars of ''Film/BabyDoll'', Carroll Baker and Karl Malden, are reunited here but never interact with one another.

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