Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker
Synopsis:
On the pretext of attending a wedding at a Union fort, a woman arranges the escape of her Confederate lover and three others, but falls in love with the hard Captain on the opposing side. Meanwhile the surrounding country is thick with murderous Mescalero indians.
Review:
There's a lot of romantic padding in the first half of Sturges's Civil War western, but once the production gets out on location there is plenty of spectacle, and Holden is as ever in total command of the camera. The climax, with the Indians literally staking out the surrounded quarry, is an effective set piece.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker
Synopsis:
On the pretext of attending a wedding at a Union fort, a woman arranges the escape of her Confederate lover and three others, but falls in love with the hard Captain on the opposing side. Meanwhile the surrounding country is thick with murderous Mescalero indians.
Review:
There's a lot of romantic padding in the first half of Sturges's Civil War western, but once the production gets out on location there is plenty of spectacle, and Holden is as ever in total command of the camera. The climax, with the Indians literally staking out the surrounded quarry, is an effective set piece.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker
Synopsis:
On the pretext of attending a wedding at a Union fort, a woman arranges the escape of her Confederate lover and three others, but falls in love with the hard Captain on the opposing side. Meanwhile the surrounding country is thick with murderous Mescalero indians.
Review:
There's a lot of romantic padding in the first half of Sturges's Civil War western, but once the production gets out on location there is plenty of spectacle, and Holden is as ever in total command of the camera. The climax, with the Indians literally staking out the surrounded quarry, is an effective set piece.