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Release Date: 1972

Cast: Joaquin Martinez, Bruce Davison, Lloyd Bochner, Dran Hamilton, Karl Swenson, Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Jorge Luke, Douglass Watson

Categories: Movies, Cavalry Film, Action/Adventure, Western, Indian Western

Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel and Bruce Davison. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp. Set in 1880s Arizona, it portrays the brutal reaction by Chiricahua Apaches to maintain their culture in the face of continual European expansion of the American West. The bleak and nihilistic tone showing U.S. troops chasing an elusive but murderous enemy has been seen as allegorical to the United States participation in the Vietnam War. Following mistreatment by agency... MORE

Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel and Bruce Davison. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp. Set in 1880s Arizona, it portrays the brutal reaction by Chiricahua Apaches to maintain their culture in the face of continual European expansion of the American West. The bleak and nihilistic tone showing U.S. troops chasing an elusive but murderous enemy has been seen as allegorical to the United States participation in the Vietnam War. Following mistreatment by agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small war party. Soon news reaches the local military commander, who sends messengers to local homesteads. Both are ambushed and killed; to avoid capture one kills the woman he is escorting and then himself. The warriors play catch with his heart. The woman's husband, who stayed behind, is captured and tortured to death. Army scout MacIntosh (Lancaster) is given the job of finding Ulzana for a troop of soldiers led by an inexperienced Lieutenant Garnett DeBuin (Davison). Joining them on the mission is a veteran sergeant LESS