Ben Johnson, Brock Peters, Charlton Heston
A Union officer leads a troop of prisoners and misfits into Mexico to counterattack some Apaches who have been raiding American towns.
DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
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Flixster Reviews (101)
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October 4, 2009I don't know what Sam Peckinpah intended but I'm pretty sure this 'studio edited' discombobulation isn't it. This is a good film that could have been a great one. High on the Richter scale of missed opportunity and unfulfilled potential.
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September 13, 2008a bit of a peckinpah failiure if you ask me. tons of great actors to utilise yet wasted in a film where the romance scenes were drawn out, not captivating in the slightest, and with the action sequences poorly orchestrated and filmed it's gotta be my least favourite peckinpah film
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December 22, 2008Sam Peckinpah?s early, flawed, epic about a Union Major running a prison camp in the New Mexican front late in the civil war, who enlists Confederate prisoners in order to go after a renegade Apache. The film fell victim to immense studio tampering, it had its budget cut in half...( read more)
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April 28, 2008Great cast, Heston and Harris are good together. Good story and fun to watch,but formulaic and bad uneventful ending.
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November 13, 2009Since I am not at all a huge fan of westerns and certainly not a fan of Charlton Heston, my rating may appear a bit low. I found it hard to sit through. There were some major stretches where i was bored. I just found it uninvolving. The score is downright irritating.
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September 5, 2009Very minor Sam Peckinpah western. Too long, and not all that compelling to be honest. The ?behind the scenes? stories of the film?s production (which include Charlton Heston threatening to run Peckinpah through with his saber) are far more interesting than what actually made it t...( read more)
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July 26, 2009Uh...Richard Harris and Heston in Mexico, epic/disjointed fighting French/indians/bandits. It's like "Apocolypse Now" except worse.
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Critic Reviews
April 14, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
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