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New Mexico (1951)

New Mexico poster
Directed by
Irving Reis
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
3.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. Army captain tries to keep peace between settlers and Native Americans in 1850s New Mexico after a massacre. He faces distrust on both sides as tensions escalate toward violence.

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What happens

New Mexico is a 1951 American Western film directed by Irving Reis, starring Lew Ayres and Marilyn Maxwell and shot in Ansco Color. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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