Movie Reviews for Escape From Fort Bravo

Escape From Fort Bravo

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Movie Reviews of Escape From Fort Bravo

Movie Review: Classic 1950's technicolor western
Summary: 4 Stars

William Holden's screen presence and charisma elevates would would have been a run of the mill 1950s B western into a memorable film. Turner Classic Movies as been running the restored letter boxed version and I can only hope that the DVD release will measure up. Look for Eleanor Parker,John Forsythe, William Campbell, John Lupton, William Demarest and Richard Anderson as a solid supporting cast.

Movie Review: Better than average western
Summary: 4 Stars

Very good film about the conflict and tensions between union army and southern prisoners during the Civil War. Minor flaws in the picture, such as weapons that were not issued until after the Civil War ended. However, William Holden is believable in this film and gives an excellent performance. The photography in Death Valley is outstanding.

Movie Review: Escape from Fort Bravo
Summary: 4 Stars

excellent love story set in the west with a civil war twist, the climatic final scenes are a testament to the cinema of the period.

Movie Review: Grey against Blue and Indians against everybody!
Summary: 3 Stars

William Holden is Captain Roper, a strict commanding officer in charge of a large group of Confederate prisoners in a dry heat stockade at Fort Bravo, Arizona, in 1863...

He is disliked by his captors as well by his captives because of his displeasing behavior toward the escapees whom he invariably recaptures... A main example, dragging back to the fort John Lupton with a rope around his waist...

To Fort Bravo arrived, one morning, the talented, and beautiful Eleanor Parker (Carla) apparently for the wedding of a friend (Polly Bergen)... In fact she is scheming the escape of a rebel, Captain John Forsythe...

Carla - a confederate agent - knows how to charm and handle beautifully Holden in her sojourn in the fort... Holden is the only danger to her plan, as he is the man who finds everybody...

One night, she escapes in a horse-drawn cart with three men, and a coward storekeeper, her Confederate ally... A deceived Holden receives with shock the striking notice that Carla, the woman he loves, is the one who planned the escape... He sets out in their pursuit, ignoring that outside, and around him, in the wilderness, common enemy is watching, the deadly Mescalero Indians...

Holden is stern, enigmatic and firm as the brusque young officer, who keeps the restless prisoners in Fort Bravo while trying to keep out marauding Indians... However Holden is an ideal human officer with integrity beneath his inflexible rules that discipline is fundamental in and around Fort Bravo...

The film carries cautiously, continuous tense action sequences as it incorporates into the exciting climax... The state of expectation and the quality of hopefulness are extremely controlled... The cast gives force and pressure to the nature of the drama keeping the actions spontaneous... The dynamic climactic redskin ambush, with brutal arrow-artillery, express great tension... The rain of the Indians arrows is vigorously presented by John Sturges who directed many fine Westerns like "Backlash," "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," and "The Law and Jake Wade."

"Escape from Fort Bravo" is a great Western and a good suspense drama with a sweet romance and spectacular action... The scenery is overwhelming: the jagged rocks, the dirt and the sage as well as the play of light and shade, all fulfilling, in Technicolor, one purpose, Grey against Blue and Indians against everybody...