Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Rory Calhoun is Ray Cully, leader of an outlaw band that also includes Dutch (John McIntire), Yaqui (Jay Silverheels) and Bronco (George Nadar).

As they flee from a botched saloon holdup, they encounter an old cowboy, Simon Bhumer (Walter Brennan) and his daughter Lolly (Colleen Miller).

All the guys are attracted to the pretty young brunette, but it’s Cully who catches her eye, despite warnings from her father that she’d be better off tying down with anyone other than a gunslinger.

Meanwhile, Cully and the gang plot their next job. They plan to hold up a bank in a neighboring town of Chooya, where Cully has a score to settle with the sheriff.

While the sheriff and Cully are duking it out, with the whole town looking on, the other three men will slip into the bank quietly and hold it up.

Everything goes as planned, but during their getaway, the bandits run across the trail of Bhumer and Lolly again.

And this time, the old man and the young girl have Apaches on their trail. Several Apaches.

Rory Calhoun as Ray Cully, anticipating a reunion with an old friend in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Colleen Miller as Lolly Bhumer. a young woman who doesn’t always act like a lady in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Review:

Better than average Calhoun outing, aided by his convincing job of baiting the sheriff into a fistfight in order to pull out an easy bank job.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a supporting cast with the likes of John McIntire, Jay Silverheels and Walter Brennan.

As for Miller, she’s pretty convincing as the young girl coming of age, yearning for romance, finding it in Cully, then finding it difficult to forget him.

There’s a particularly sensual encounter in a barn between Cully and Lolly after she’s dashed through the rain in her nightgown.

Her father shows up just in time to break it up. At gunpoint.

Walter Brennan as George Bhumer, trying to talk sense into his daughter Lolly in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

John McIntire as Dutch, wondering how Ray Cully plans to spend the money from a bank robbery in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Directed by:
Richard Carlson

Cast:
Rory Calhoun … Ray Cully
John McIntire … Dutch
George Nadar … Bronco
Jay Silverheels … Yaqui
Colleen Miller … Lolly Bhumer
Walter Brennan … George Bhumer
Charles Drake … Sheriff Flannery
Nina Foch … Maggie Flannery
Nestor Paiva … Greasy

Runtime: 83 min.

Jay Silverheels as Yaqui, holding a bank manager at knife point during a holdup in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

George Nadar as Bronco, helping himself to the contents of the safe in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Memorable lines:

Ray Cully, to George Bhumer, upon meeting his daughter Lolly: “I take it this is your brat.”

Lolly: “They say Indians don’t talk much. But give them some smoke and they chatter like women at a church social.”

Ray Cully: “I don’t like anyone telling me what to do.”
Maggie Flannery: “Especially a woman. Some woman might even love you if you’d let her. But that would never do. She might make you throw away that toy (six-shooter) and grow into a responsible citizen.”

Lolly to Cully: “Take me with you. I won’t make you do anything you don’t want to.”
Cully: “You’re a woman, aren’t you?”

Charles Drake as Sheriff Flannery, on the trail of an old friend in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Rory Calhoun as Ray Cully, being invited out of town after a tussle with the sheriff in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Colleen Miller as Lolly Bhumer, looking for mischief in the stable in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Charles Drake as Sheriff Flannery and Nina Foch as his wife Maggie, neither pleased to see Ray Cully back in town in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Colleen Miller as Lolly Bhumer and Walter Brennan as her dad George, on the watch for Indians in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Rory Calhoun as Ray Cully realizes Indians are trailing George Bhumer and his pretty daughter in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Rory Calhoun as Ray Cully, catching his first glimpse of George Bhumer’s pretty daughter in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Colleen Miller as Lolly Bhumer and Rory Calhoun as Ray Cully trying to fight off an Apache attack in Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Colleen Miller as Lloy Bhumer and Rory Clahoun as Ray Cully ducking as the posse catches up in Four Guns to the Border (1954)