Mohawk (1956)

The plot has to do with a womanizing artist (Scot Brady) living at a frontier fort. He’s already having an affair with the shopkeeper’s daughter (Allison Hayes) when his fiancée (Lori Nelson) turns up. He then falls in love with the Mohawk chief’s daughter (Rita Gam) and has to try to prevent a war with the Mohawk tribe which is being stirred up by a bitter early settler (John Hoyt).

To be honest it isn’t particularly good - most due to a dodgy script which tries to have the Indians sounding wise and mystical but really just should like they’re spouting mixed metaphor nonsense. The story fills the basic cliches of the 50s “sympathetic to Indians” Western but doesn’t have any particularly insightful deviations from the template.

The actors playing the main Mohawk characters don’t look particularly like they’re actually Native Americans (a common feature in 50s Westerns). In fact the actor playing the chief (Ted de Corsia) looks oddly like John Wayne with a different hairstyle, which certainly threw me off a bit.

It isn’t terrible, but it never exceeds the level of “unimpressive 50s B-Western”.