Column South

Column South
Film poster
Directed by	Frederick de Cordova
Screenplay by	William Sackheim
Story by	William Sackheim
Produced by	Ted Richmond
Starring	Audie Murphy Joan Evans
Cinematography	Charles P. Boyle
Edited by	Milton Carruth
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Universal International Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 20, 1953 (1953-05-20) (Los Angeles)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.1 million (US)

Column South is a 1953 American Western film directed by Frederick de Cordova and starring Audie Murphy and Joan Evans.

Plot

In 1861, prior to the American Civil War, a Union officer (Audie Murphy), tries to prove local Navajo Indians were innocent of killing a prospector. He has to fight the anti-Indian attitudes of his superior officer (Robert Sterling) and north–south tensions among the soldiers. He discovers Confederate sympathizers are planning to cause the Indians to go on the warpath for their benefit.

Cast

• Audie Murphy as Lieutenant Jed Sayre
• Joan Evans as Marcy Whitlock
• Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Whitlock
• Ray Collins as Brigadier General Storey
• Dennis Weaver as Menguito
• Gregg Palmer as Chalmers (credited as Palmer Lee)
• Russell Johnson as Corporal Biddle
• Jack Kelly as Trooper Vaness
• Johnny Downs as Lieutenant Posick
• Bob Steele as First Sergeant McAfee
• James Best as Primrose
• Ralph Moody as Joe "Copper Face"
• Rico Alaniz as Trooper Chavez

External links

• Column South at IMDb
• Column South at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Column South at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
• Review of film at Variety