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{{Infobox film
| name           = Ten Who Dared
| image          = Poster of the movie Ten Who Dared.jpg
| director       = [[William Beaudine]]
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]<br />[[James Algar]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|journal|[[John Wesley Powell]]}}
| writer         = [[Lawrence Edward Watkin]]
| music          = [[Oliver Wallace]]
| cinematography = [[Gordon Avil]]
| editing        = [[Norman Palmer (film editor)|Norman Palmer]]<br />[[Cotton Warburton]]
| starring       = [[Brian Keith]]<br />[[John Beal (actor)|John Beal]]<br />[[James Drury]] 
| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution]]
| released       = {{Film date|1960|11|1}}
| runtime        = 92 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
}}

'''''Ten Who Dared''''' is a 1960 American [[Western (genre)|Western]] film directed by [[William Beaudine]] and starring [[Brian Keith]], [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]], [[John Beal (actor)|John Beal]] and [[James Drury]]. It was produced by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Productions]] and released by [[Buena Vista Distribution]]. It tells the story of [[United States Army]] officer [[John Wesley Powell]], who was the first to travel down the [[Colorado River]], and the dangers that he and nine other men had to face while making a map of the region during their [[Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869|1869 expedition]]. Hired by Walt Disney Studios in 1959 as a technical adviser, [[Otis R. Marston]] led a film crew through the Grand Canyon to film river running and background scenes for the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf438n99sg&view=dsc&style=oac4&dsc.position=10001|title=Otis R. Marston Collection, Huntington Library|access-date=2015-01-28}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film is set in the United States, in 1869.

Thanks to the activity of explorers, soldiers and trappers, the American territory is now well known. On the cards, there are few places marked with an explicit Unexplored (unexplored). One of these places shrouded in mystery and avoided because they are believed to be full of danger is the Colorado River.

John Wesley Powell, a former Northern major of enormous scientific culture, but without an arm, lost at the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, gathers 9 men, including his brother Walter, marked by the sufferings of Southern captivity, and obtains 4 boats to set out to discover Colorado.

The journey is long and difficult. On the way, a boat is destroyed by the whiskey drunk occupants.

The meeting with Baker, trapper husband of an Indian and friend of Powell, who tells of terrible waterfalls, makes one of the men abandon the company. Three others mutiny, continuing the journey overland alone, but are killed by the Indians who pass them off as the killers of a squaw.

Powell eventually finds the point where the Colorado flows into Lake Mead, concluding the great feat with success.

==Cast==
* [[Brian Keith]] as Bill Dunn
* [[John Beal (actor)|John Beal]] as Major [[John Wesley Powell]]
* [[James Drury]] as Walter Powell
* [[R. G. Armstrong]] as Oramel Howland
* [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]] as George Bradley
* [[L. Q. Jones]] as Billy "Missouri" Hawkins
* [[Dan Sheridan]] as Jack Sumner
* [[David Stollery]] as Andrew "Andy" Hall
* [[Stan Jones (songwriter)|Stan Jones]] as Seneca Howland
* [[David Frankham]] as Frank Goodman
* [[Roy Barcroft]] as Jim Baker
* [[Pat Hogan]] as Indian Chief
* [[Ray Walker (actor)|Ray Walker]] as McSpadden
* [[Jack Bighead]] as Ashtishkel
* Dawn Little Sky as Indian Woman
* Chickie The Dog as Jarvie The Dog

==Production==
Besides the Grand Canyon, other parts of the film were shot at the Big Bend of the [[Colorado River]], Professor Valley, [[Arches]], [[Dead Horse Point]], [[Dewey, Utah|Dewey]], [[Castle Valley, Utah|Castle Valley]], and [[Westwater Canyon]] in [[Utah]].<ref>{{Cite Q|Q123575108|p=289}}</ref>

The Grand Canyon production crew included producer [[James Algar]], assistant director of script Herb Hirst, assistant director and production manager Russ Haverick, assistant producer Alessandro "Vee" Bodrero, head cameraman [[Gordon Avil]], operative cameraman Richard Kelley, medical control Forrest "Doc" Reed, special effects Ray Bolton, makeup and wardrobe Frank LaRue, radioman Lester Gear, mechanic Don "Doc" Hill and rim control Matthew Bruttig.

One of the replica boats used on the film, the ''Emma Dean'', was recovered by local raconteur, Stan A. Jones, in 1969 from the [[Golden Oak Ranch]], a Disney movie lot in Placerita Canyon, [[Newhall, Santa Clarita, California]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Stan Jones |title=Stan Jones' Ramblings By Boat and Boot in Lake Powell Country|chapter=Emma Dean's Last Voyage |pages=75–77 |year=1998 |location=[[Page, Arizona]] |publisher=Sun Country Publications}}</ref> The boat is on display at the Powell Museum in [[Page, Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lakepowellchronicle.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=3234&page=77 |title=Powell Museum boat vandalized |work=Lake Powell Chronicle |access-date=2013-06-14}}</ref>

==Reception==
According to ''[[Allmovie]]'', critics consistently rate this as one of the worst films made by Disney.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/ten-who-dared-v49032 |title=Ten Who Dared |access-date=2019-01-11 |work=Allmovie |publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]]}}</ref> ''[[Halliwell's Film Guide]]'' calls it "tedious and unconvincing".<ref>{{cite book|editor=Gritten, David |title=[[Halliwell's Film Guide|Halliwell's Film Guide 2008]] |chapter=Ten Who Dared |page=1178 |isbn=978-0-00-726080-5 |year=2007 |location=[[Hammersmith]], London |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] Publishers}}</ref> Leonard Maltin's annual publication "TV Movies" gives the film a BOMB rating, describing it as "rock-bottom Disney".

==Comic book adaption==
* [[Dell Comics|Dell]] [[Four Color]] #1178 (December 1960)<ref>{{gcdb issue|id=15971|title=Dell Four Color #1178}}</ref><ref>{{comicbookdb|type=issue|id=314243|title=Dell Four Color #1178}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://movies.disney.com/ten-who-dared}}
* {{IMDb title|0054372}}

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[[Category:Walt Disney Pictures films]]
[[Category:1960 films]]
[[Category:American films based on actual events]]
[[Category:Films directed by William Beaudine]]
[[Category:1960s adventure films]]
[[Category:American Western (genre) films]]
[[Category:1960 Western (genre) films]]
[[Category:Films produced by James Algar]]
[[Category:Films produced by Walt Disney]]
[[Category:Films set in 1869]]
[[Category:Films scored by Oliver Wallace]]
[[Category:Films adapted into comics]]
[[Category:Films shot in Utah]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:English-language Western (genre) films]]
[[Category:English-language adventure films]]