A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.
During the Rif War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legion's outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Hussein's tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements.
Director:
Willis Goldbeck
Stars:
Burt Lancaster,
Jody Lawrance,
Gilbert Roland
During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.
Napoleon's (Herbert Lom's) tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Hiding in the mountains from the law, father and son break wild horses until a lost female lawyer joins them to help clear their name, but some would rather see them dead.
Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him... See full summary »
Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiowa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The dispute results in other whites turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother. Cash, the hotheaded brother, reacts violently upon learning his "sister" is a "red-hide Indian." He leaves the family but returns to help them fight off an Indian raid.Written by
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When the piano is delivered, Mrs. Zachary sits down to play it, and it is in perfect tune. Not possible! Moving a piano always knocks it out of tune, and moving a piano in a wagon across that terrain would have made it terribly out of tune. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
[yelling at a cow eating grass growing on the Zachary family's roof]
Rachel Zachary:
Shoo now! Shoo! Ain't you got no better manners than to eat at the top of a house?
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This film is an atypical western that tells the story of a girl who discovers, after living all her life on a farm, being born in an Indian tribe from where she was stolen as a baby. The idea is quite unique and works well, allowing a western a psychological and dramatic depth that, otherwise, would hardly have reached. The question is deeper than it seems: one of the men in the family, who grew up thinking that he was the girl's brother, shows that he feels all that feelings that are usually condemned between siblings. Luckily for him, she's not really his sister...
The film is quite interesting, has a sufficiently well structured story, doesn't stretch too much in sentimentality nor it's absolutely cold. The location of the footage, scenarios and costumes are convincing and appropriate to the historical period. The problem with this movie is the cast. Although none of them have a performance that I can clearly label as bad, the choice was thought out without regard to the script. Thus we have an extremely white and European Audrey Hepburn in a character who is Amerindian, Indians who are Caucasian men painted... an out of season carnival. It may not seem like it, but it takes a lot of quality out of the film.
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This film is an atypical western that tells the story of a girl who discovers, after living all her life on a farm, being born in an Indian tribe from where she was stolen as a baby. The idea is quite unique and works well, allowing a western a psychological and dramatic depth that, otherwise, would hardly have reached. The question is deeper than it seems: one of the men in the family, who grew up thinking that he was the girl's brother, shows that he feels all that feelings that are usually condemned between siblings. Luckily for him, she's not really his sister...
The film is quite interesting, has a sufficiently well structured story, doesn't stretch too much in sentimentality nor it's absolutely cold. The location of the footage, scenarios and costumes are convincing and appropriate to the historical period. The problem with this movie is the cast. Although none of them have a performance that I can clearly label as bad, the choice was thought out without regard to the script. Thus we have an extremely white and European Audrey Hepburn in a character who is Amerindian, Indians who are Caucasian men painted... an out of season carnival. It may not seem like it, but it takes a lot of quality out of the film.