Column South | |
Director: | Frederick de Cordova |
Producer: | Ted Richmond |
Screenplay: | William Sackheim |
Story: | William Sackheim |
Starring: | Audie Murphy Joan Evans |
Cinematography: | Charles P. Boyle |
Editing: | Milton Carruth |
Color Process: | Technicolor |
Studio: | Universal International Pictures |
Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Runtime: | 84 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Gross: | $1.1 million (US)[1] |
Column South is a 1953 American Western film directed by Frederick de Cordova and starring Audie Murphy and Joan Evans.[2]
In 1861, prior to the American Civil War, a Union officer (Audie Murphy), tries to prove local Navajo Indians are innocent of killing a prospector. He has to fight the anti-Indian attitudes of his superior officer (Robert Sterling) and north–south tensions within the soldiers. He discovers Confederate sympathizers are planning to cause the Indians to go on the warpath for their own benefit.