3 star out of 10. someone apparently love the african queen with humphrey bogart and katherine hepburn and decide they want to do a western version and by golly they do . only copper sky be a far cry from the african queen . nora haynes ( coleen gray ) from boston and arrive in town to be the new schoolmarm only to discover everyone there have be kill in a fight between the town people and the apache . one apache isn not quite dead yet and shoot the man who pick nora up from the stagecoach station before he succumb . she seem to be alone in the town with a whole lot of dead body when heck williams come stagger along . although there be no indication he have a drinking problem prior to be put in jail to be hang for a crime he do not commit from this point on he drink like a fish . heck agree to drive nora to a small settlement some distance from there and so the two set out grumping and bumping and in a wagon . this be one of the long most boring wagon journey ever undertake on the silver screen . nora chatter at a soured heck who grunt his reply to her . eventually one of their horse go lame . in real life and usually with a little rest and the lameness clear up and but not in this film . the only answer be to shoot the horse . they then travel for awhile with the one horse hitch to the wagon . now just how they be able to get a single horse to pull a wagon with a double tree hitch be a trick they fail to show u . a wagon wheel go out on them . so then she rid the horse and which he be lead . suddenly and with no explanation and the horse be go and theyre barely crawl across what have abruptly turn into the sahara desert with sand so white it look like snow . desperately they turn to prayer . there a river on the other side of the ridge . i guess that river wouldn not have be there if they hadn not of pray . so there you have it boy meet girl and boy and girl snipe at each other and boy and girl fall in love and girl of course admits she the one that be completely in the wrong and everything have be her fault and never mind his rudeness or drunkenness it not necessary in a film make in 1957 for him to admit to any fault or apologize for anything . definitely one of the poor western film i have ever see . perhaps if she would come into town and the only person leave be a dyke it could have at least add a bit of spicy interest to the film . a it be this film have pretty much zero go for it except for a little unintentional humor like the very brief battle between the apache and the cavalry and where the capt . suddenly just holler represent all right and your chief dead . give up . and they immediately do so and although the chief be the only one of them who have get kill .