New Mexico, una piccola banda di Apache guidata da Ulzana fugge da una riserva e sfoga l'odio represso verso l'uomo bianco con feroci azioni criminali di una crudeltà inaudita.New Mexico, una piccola banda di Apache guidata da Ulzana fugge da una riserva e sfoga l'odio represso verso l'uomo bianco con feroci azioni criminali di una crudeltà inaudita.New Mexico, una piccola banda di Apache guidata da Ulzana fugge da una riserva e sfoga l'odio represso verso l'uomo bianco con feroci azioni criminali di una crudeltà inaudita.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Ulzana
- (as Joaquin Martinez)
- McIntosh's Indian Woman
- (as Aimee Ecclés)
Trama
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- QuizAlthough technically not credited as such, Burt Lancaster was virtually a producer on the film, helping bring it to screen, taking a percentage instead of an upfront salary and having a say in the editing stages.
- BlooperAt the end of the movie just before Mcintosh and his party enter the canyon for the ambush he tells the Sergent that they have to wait for Ke-Ni-Tay to take out Ulzana's sentry. However, the decision for Ke-Ni-Tay to take out the sentry was made by Lt. DeBuin after Mcintosh had led the other party into the ambush so there was no way for Mcintosh to know what Ke-Ni-Tay was doing.
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Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Do you hate Apaches, Mr. McIntosh?
McIntosh: No.
Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Well, I do.
McIntosh: Well, it might not make you happy, Lieutenant, but it sure won't make you lonesome. Most white folks hereabout feel the same way you do.
Lt. Harry Garnett DeBuin: Why don't you feel that way?
McIntosh: It would be like hating the desert because there ain't no water in it. For now, I can get by being plenty scared of 'em.
- Versioni alternativeThere are two versions of this film, Robert Aldrich's print (RA) and Burt Lancaster's (BL) print. There are many subtle differences between the two although the overall running times are similar and most of the changes involve alterations of shots or lines of dialog within scenes. In the UK the Lancaster version was released on VHS and the Aldrich version on DVD (same as the US version) The major differences versions are: (a) The Aldrich version has an opening scene (before the credits) showing Ulzana leaving the reservation. This is missing from the Lancaster print. (b) The BL version deletes almost all shots of Burt Lancaster's Indian woman - played by Aimee Eccles (c) The BL version has a scene showing the two troopers pursuing the wounded Indian, The off-screen Indian kills one of them with rifle fire and the survivor rides away. This is missing from the RA print therefore creating more ambiguity as to what actually happened when the survivor returns. (d) The scene in which the rape victim plunges herself in the river is longer in the RA version and she refers to herself trying to "wash it off". In the BL version, the scene is abridged to suggest only suicide.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Cuori senza età: Big Daddy (1986)
Even more surprising is the portrayal of the Apaches. They're not menacingly evil subhumans as in some early westerns, but neither are they the always humane and sensitive pseudo flower children caricatures as in "Little Big Man" or "Dances With Wolves". They're extremely violent, ruthless, and cruel--however the movie doesn't set them up as necessarily the bad guys. They're just the adversary.
At one point Lancaster's character says "Hating the Apache is like hating the desert because there isn't any water in it." (Or something similar.) That line really sums up the movie in my view.
There isn't much black or white here, just two groups of men--and it is a masculine movie--using their stamina, wiles, and tactics in a game of cat and mouse. There are some violent scenes, but never gratuitous; the scenes can be unsettling, but its not really gruesome.
Well done.
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- Budget
- 1.200.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 43 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1