Devil's Doorway is a 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern and Paula Raymond.
[1] Lance Poole, a Shoshone veteran of the Civil War and Medal of Honor recipient, returns to his home in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to something a far cry from a hero's welcome.
He notes "Devil's Doorway, like the Twentieth Century-Fox picture of a few months back, Broken Arrow, is a Western with a point of view that rattles some skeletons in our family closet.
Robert Taylor may strike you as a rather peculiar choice to play a full-blooded Indian, but give the man credit for a forceful performance.
However, the other players give good performances even though they represent characters that are as much a part of the Western film formula as horses and sagebrush.