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(More customer reviews)This was the first DVD from Brazil that I ordered and I am very happy I did. The picture is very sharp, the sound is quite adequate and color is great. They had an original techniclor print for a master and the colors are very rich. The audio is in english, and the Portugese subtitles easily removed. The DVD also contains the original trailer. You don't need an all region player. This film has never been released here in the United States.
Recent West Point graduate Lance Caldwell (Rock Hudson) is sent to Florida, his home, to help Major Degan (Richard Carlson) forceably remove the Seminoles lead by Chief Osceola from the ancient home land. They don't want to go and are resisting. Caldwell grew up with the Seminoles and knows they are not warlike and offers to try to talk to them. Degan tells him the time for talk is over and he is mounting an expedition to attack them.
Caldwell also renews his relationship with Rever Muldoon (Barbara Hale) whom he loves and also wants to find out what happened to his best friend John Powell (Anthony Quinn). Both had been accepted to West Point and John whould have been the first Indian accepted to the Academy but on the day they were to leave John didn't show up and disappeared.
Degan's expedition ends in a disaster and Degan and only two other men escape and Caldwell is captured. Caldwell learns that Osceola is his friend John and John and Revere are in love. Osceola still wants peace and is tricked by Degan into coming to Fort Lincoln.
This is a good solid western directed by Budd Boetticher with a great cast: Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale, Richard Carlson, Lee Marvin and Hugh O'Brian. It also has some tough violent action and like many weterns from the 1950's a more adult plot and characters. My only complaint is that the movie deserved a bigger budget.
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