Ulzana's Raid
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Actor: Bruce Davison, Burt Lancaster, Joaquín Martínez, Jorge Luke, Richard JaeckelDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Good Times Home Video
Movie Reviews of Ulzana's Raid
Movie Review: Ulzana's Raid
Summary: 5 Stars
Being an author and Indian War researcher, I just have to take a minute and tell anyone interested in the Indian War conflicts in the 1867-1890 period of our western settlement to take note. This movie is a motion picture in real time action of what it was actually like in the southwest territory during the Indian War period. The Writer/Director and technical assistants have gone well above the Hollywood norm to bring to you the actual sights and sounds of small unit cavalry actions against Apache Indian hostiles, and have left no stone unturned. The panoramic scenery is a bonus in itself. The Apaches helped write the book on guerilla warefare and this is what this movie is about. The small Apache hostile band depicted in the movie were terrorists, make no mistake about it, and their acting is superb as well as their movement and presentation. Every scene in this movie and it's script is as if it were taken directly from official war department reports in the National Archives. Every still frame could be mounted on a wall as a portrait. Even the proper number of buttons on uniforms, horse equipment, and the exact firearms used (with the exception of a few Winchester model '92'rifles)are correct as well as the Army-Scout-civilian personal inter-action and relationships. The Apache warrior dress, mindset and demeanor is exact. Their knives and motives are razor sharp. Of all the motion pictures I have studied beginning with "They died with their boots on" to date, this one is the real thing. From the very first scene until the last, there are NO mistakes. It shares the absolute terror, fear and uncertainity of this type of warfare with it's viewer. You have no choice. This is not a "Hollywood Western" in anybody's book. It is a Classic. It is a brutal, no holds barred, brilliantly directed and performed production. It should be viewed in high school or college classes to drive home a very true and clear picture of the cultural clashes involving the settlement of the west and civilization everywhere. It would open some eyes. If you want an action filled evening's entertainment with popcorn, this is it. If you want to see what the Indian Wars were really like and ride in the saddle, Apache or Cavalry, this is it. The situations in the film can be just as easily repeated today. Please don't let this one pass by you, even if you only see it once in your life. It's a keeper. When it's finished, remind yourself as you turn off your system that things like this DID happen, and probably will happen again in our history. The Writer/Director did the homework for you on this one. It's a undusted classic. As for Burt Lancaster? Just watch it. Thank you.
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