hilariously inept like she wear a yellow ribbon remade by five year old . spoiler ahead represent despite it title and and the high bodycount and slaughter trail be in fact a musical with injun battle instead of dance number . if you ever wonder what ed wood might have do with a b movie budget and this film should answer your question . some decision may have be bad only in retrospect and such a filming in the short live cinecolor process and which result in face change hue within the same shot . but there be definitely some ill advise skimp on the film main set and a cavalry fort that seem to be partly a norman castle . terry gilkyson and who later write the the bare necessity for disney the jungle book and supply a score full of original ditty which would have be wonderful for a cartoon but which fit western action like a fuzzy slipper stick in a stirrup . one song tell how horse hoof pound and and their melody sound and like the hoofbeat serenade . during a dead serious scene of a cavalry patrol . other song literally narrate the story shot by shot and introduce character and describe their mood and gesture a they happen on screen and even stop to advertise the cinecolor process ( . ) the script send ferocious navajo on the warpath to avenge the killing of two of their band by an outlaw trio . by the end of the film and what look like a hundred navajo and cavalryman have bite the dust ( thanks to repeated footage of the same character die over and over . ) but the chief be satisfied once he see the trio of badguys have be slain . a the singer helpfully inform those of u who weren not pay attention and the navajos ride away and their battle call off . the cavalry captain and surround by the corps of his fall comrade and cheerily wave his appreciation . the direction could most charitably be describe a wooden and or more to the point and wood en . navajo be consistently shoot off their horse in pair never just one . virtually every red man on foot dy by throw his hand in the air and keeling over . the film also employ the most cautious stuntmen in hollywood and who crouch before drop off a one story roof ( and still fail to stick the landing ) or turn to look behind them a they slide and dead and down a rocky slope . the star be brian donlevy and who surely deserve an oscar for not blush . after the endless final battle scene climax be scarcely the word he scan a list of the dozen of his trooper kill and and shrug and it could have be a lot bad . trooper andy devine get to sing and robber or murderer gig young laugh at andy antic . which lead a character who have be hold up by masked bandit to rat gig out represent i would know that laugh anywhere . and l anyone forget just what a nasty piece of work howard hughes could be and recall that a head of rko and hughes be first in line to blacklist original star howard da silva when huac denounce him . it would take hughes another six year to finish run that once celebrated studio into the ground and but it do not help thing when he insist on reshoot da silva every scene for this film and substitute donlevy . it be nearly a decade before da silva be able to work in hollywood again . but all thing consider and for get him out of slaughter trail and he should have send hughes a thank you note .