Pursuit (1975)

Ray Danton is Yellow Shirt, a vicious Apache chief on the warpath after his village has been attacked.

He and his wife were among the few survivors of that attack on a peaceful village. Now he’s out for vengeance.

Dewitt Lee is Sam Glass, a cavalry scout leading a small patrol ordered back to the fort because of that uprising.

Sure enough, the Apache show up.

But Sam Glass’s real trouble starts when he’s attacked by a bear and seriously injured, then abandoned by the two soldiers assigned to stay with him until he dies.

Only Glass doesn’t die. He climbs out of his shallow grave with an injured leg and winds up in a deadly game of cat and mouse with Yellow Shirt.

Ray Danton as Yellow Shirt with a freshly taken scalp in Pursuit (1975)

Dewitt Lee as Sam Glass in Pursuit (1975)

Review:

Grade Z effort, where shocking scenes are supposed to make up for a lack of a plot.

In addition to the bear attack, there’s Glass slaying one Indian with a prickly cactus, one soldier scalped while still alive and another buried to his neck so the Indians can make a game of bashing in his head.

Oh, and a scene in which a starving Glass grabs a lizard and hungrily bites off its head.

There’s a bit of an ironic twist at the end. But you might be angry that you spent nearly 90 minutes to get to that end.

Earl Baldwyn as the major in Pursuit (1975)

Troy Nabors as Cpl. Lem Hawkins in Pursuit (1975)

Directed by:
Vern Piehl

Cast:
Ray Danton … Yellow Shirt
Dewitt Lee … Sam Glass
Diane Taylor … Yellow Shirt’s Woman
Eva Kovacs … Martha Glass
Troy Nabors … Cpl. Hawkins
Jason Clark … Dispatch Rider
Earl Baldwyn … Major
Dave Robart … Soldier
William Chadwick … Soldier
Carl Mancini … Solider
Jack Lee … Fort sentry
Wilford Wright … Apache
Carl Nelson … Apache

Runtime: 91 min.

aka:
Apache Blood
A Man Called She

Song: “A Man Called She”

Diane Taylor as Yellow Shirt’s woman in Pursuit (1975)

Eva Kovacs as Martha Glass in Pursuit (1975)

Memorable lines:

Major, of Yellow Shirt: “I hoped that renegade had learned his lesson after the skirmish we had at the Big Muddy last spring.”
Sam Glass: “Wolves don’t change, major, once they’ve tasted blood.”

Major: “Sam, you know the Apache better than any of us. Why do you supposed they quit last night?”
Sam Glass: “My guess is they were having a little fun. When they get tired of the fun, we better prepare for dying.”

Dewitt Lee as Sam Glass, getting a glimpse of hope in Pursuit (1975)

Ray Danton as Yellow Shirt in Pursuit (1975)