Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Pillars of the Sky
Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky

The story of a people's faith and the courage of a man they called Godless!

Genres

Western

OverView

First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$1500000

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

95 mins

Rating

5.5/10

Release Date

14 September 1956

Country

United States of America

Cast

Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler

First Sgt. Emmett Bell

Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone

Calla Gaxton

Ward Bond

Ward Bond

Dr. Joseph Holden

Keith Andes

Keith Andes

Capt. Tom Gaxton

Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

Sgt. Lloyd Carracart

Sydney Chaplin

Sydney Chaplin

Timothy

Willis Bouchey

Willis Bouchey

Col. Edson Stedlow

Michael Ansara

Michael Ansara

Kamiakin

Olive Carey

Olive Carey

Mrs. Anne Avery

Charles Horvath

Charles Horvath

Sgt. Dutch Williams

Orlando Rodríguez

Orlando Rodríguez

Malachi

Glen Kramer

Glen Kramer

Lt. Winston

Floyd Simmons

Floyd Simmons

Lt. Hammond

Pat Hogan

Pat Hogan

Jacob

Felix Noriego

Felix Noriego

Lucas

Paul Smith

Paul Smith

Morgan

Martin Milner

Martin Milner

Waco

Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis

Albie

Ralph Votrian

Ralph Votrian

Music

Walter Coy

Walter Coy

Maj. Donahue

Alberto Morin

Alberto Morin

Sgt. Maj. Frenchy Desmonde

Richard Hale

Richard Hale

Isaiah

Frank De Kova

Frank De Kova

Zachariah

Terry Wilson

Terry Wilson

Capt. Fanning

Philip Kieffer

Philip Kieffer

Maj. Randall

Gilbert Conner

Gilbert Conner

Elijah

Similar Movies

6.9

Apache Gold

December 1963 •German

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.

6.6

Last of the Renegades

September 1964 •German

Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.

6.3

Duel at Diablo

June 1966 •English

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

6.6

Hondo

November 1953 •English

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

6.5

The Last Wagon

September 1956 •English

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.

5.4

Southwest Passage

April 1954 •English

As the Cavalry tests the viability of bringing camels to US deserts, a surveyor, Arab drivers, and fugitive bank robbers confront Apaches and thirst. Originally filmed in 3-D

6.8

Rio Grande

November 1950 •English

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

6.3

The Missing

November 2003 •English

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

4.9

40 Guns to Apache Pass

May 1967 •English

The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers

6.3

The Battle at Apache Pass

May 1952 •English

Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.

6.3

Geronimo: An American Legend

December 1993 •English

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.

7.2

The Man from Laramie

August 1955 •English

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.

6.6

Major Dundee

March 1965 •English

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

7.1

Hombre

March 1967 •English

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

6.1

Day of the Evil Gun

March 1968 •English

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

7.7

Por mis pistolas

August 1968 •Spanish

Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.

6.1

Apache

July 1954 •English

Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.

7.0

Fort Apache

May 1948 •English

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

6.1

Garden of Evil

July 1954 •English

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

6.3

Rio Conchos

October 1964 •English

Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.