Ulzana's Raid (1972)

Regista:

Robert Aldrich

Sceneggiatore:

Alan Sharp (writer)

Data di uscita:

18 ottobre 1972 (USA)

Genere:

Adventure | Western

Slogan:

One man alone understood the savagery of the early American west from both sides.

Plot:

Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers...

Plot Keywords:

Arizona | Bondage | Baseball | Native American Reservation | Scout

Recensioni degli utenti:

Outguessing the enemy was the key to survival

Cast

Burt Lancaster	...	McIntosh
Bruce Davison	...	Lt. Garnett DeBuin
Jorge Luke	...	Ke-Ni-Tay (army scout)
Richard Jaeckel	...	Sergeant
Joaquín Martínez	...	Ulzana (as Joaquin Martinez)
Lloyd Bochner	...	Capt. Charles Gates
Karl Swenson	...	Willy Rukeyser (settler)
Douglass Watson	...	Maj. Cartwright (CO, Ft. Lowell)
Dran Hamilton	...	Mrs. Riordan
John Pearce	...	Corporal
Gladys Holland	...	Mrs. Rukeyser
Margaret Fairchild	...	Mrs. Abbie Ginsford
Aimée Eccles	...	McIntosh's Indian woman (as Aimee Ecclés)
Richard Bull	...	Ginsford (settler)
Otto Reichow	...	'Dutch' Steegmeyer (Indian Agent, San Carlos Reservation)

Alias:

Nessuna pietà per Ulzana (Italy) [it]

Durata:

103 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Divieti:

UK:15 (re-rating) (cut) | West Germany:12 (f) (re-rating) | Iceland:16 | West Germany:16 (f) (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Denmark:11 (2003) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R

Luoghi delle riprese:

Coronado National Forest, Arizona, USA

Company:

Associates & Aldrich Company, The

Curiosità:

Robert Aldrich privately admitted that he wasn't entirely satisfied with the way the film turned out.

Citazioni:

McIntosh: Lieutenant, a horse apple dries out at a certain rate. This one's pretty solid. Ke-Ni-Tay figures four, maybe five hours.
Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: What do *you* think?
McIntosh: I ain't about to argue with no Apache about horseshit, Lieutenant. He's the expert.

Outguessing the enemy was the key to survival

During years I avoided seeing `Ulzana's Raid' because the title gave me the idea that it was a spaghetti western of which I had seen my share. I saw it a couple of days ago and was impressed. This is a film that goes into the mind of the Indian , and also of the Lieutenant whose father is a minister and has strong Christian feelings. The two of them live in two different worlds and for the officer to understand Ulzana is a very hard task, it does not relate to anything his father taught him. Nevertheless figuring out Ulzana is essential for his mission and he is coached into that by Burt Lancaster and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Indian scout. Ulzana kills every homesteader he finds, he must know that ultimately he is going to be caught, it is just a question of time. Lancaster is a master in strategy, but so is Ulzana, who at times seems like a maestro orienting his men. The brains here count more than the weapons. This is Aldrich's best film, he redeemed himself from `The Last Sunset.'