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5.6/10   45 votes
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Director:
Writers:
William Sackheim (screenplay)
Louis Stevens (screenplay)
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Release Date:
January 1954 (USA) more
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Plot:
A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them. full summary | add synopsis
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Average in just about every way more (2 total)

Cast

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Joel McCrea ... Major Clete Mattson

Yvonne De Carlo ... Carmelita Carjas
Pedro Armendáriz ... General Eduardo Calleja
Howard Petrie ... Newlund
Erika Nordin ... Annina
Alfonso Bedoya ... Captain Felipe Vargas
Ivan Triesault ... Baron Kurt von Hollden
George J. Lewis ... Lieutenant Sanchez
George Wallace ... Fletcher
Lane Chandler ... Quartz Anderson
Charles Horvath ... Crowe, Anderson's Henchman
Nacho Galindo ... Lopez
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80 min
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General Eduardo Calleja: we will give these men a fair trial, then we will shoot them in the morning. more

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4 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Average in just about every way, 29 October 2006
5/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

This isn't a particularly good or bad Western and the only reason I watched it is because Joel McCrea was a pretty good actor. Aside from his excellent as always performance, the film doesn't have a whole lot to distinguish it one way or the other. It's a definite time-passer, though Yvonne de Carlo and Pedro Armendariz do provide some decent supporting chemistry in this film about stolen Union gold during the US and Mexican Civil wars.

Armendariz plays a rogue Mexican general who sets up his own government along the US and Mexican border. Here is where wanted men and those who are seeking to do illegal stuff congregate. McCrea shows to buy arms for the Confederacy from the slick general and most of the movie concerns how McCrea can both keep the gold hidden AND eventually exchange it for weapons without getting killed or robbed. The film is competently made and interesting, but that's all.

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