Escape From Fort Bravo
by John Sturges
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Actor: Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Campbell, William Demarest, William HoldenDirector: John Sturges
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Editor: George Boemler
Producer: Nicholas Nayfack
Writer: Frank Fenton
Writer: Michael Pate
Writer: Phillip Rock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Turner-made western set in 1860's Arizona. Starring Eleanor Parker and Bill Holden. The war between the North and the South has some unexpected effects on the battles between whites and indians, leading up to a ambush-finale that's not to be missed. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN Rating:?NR Age:?883929005123 UPC:?883929005123 Manufacturer No:?1000036331
DVD Reviews of Escape From Fort Bravo
DVD 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.DVD Review: William Holden and Eleanor Parker in entertaining western adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
Normally I'm not much of a western fan, but I really took to ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the movie features one of my all-time favourite actresses, Eleanor Parker, in a lead role.
ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO (John Sturges, 1953), stars William Holden as Captain Roper, a merciless officer at Fort Bravo, in charge of a group of captive Confederate soldiers. The arrival of beautiful Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) sidetracks Roper's attention long enough for Carla's boyfriend, Capt. John Marsh (John Forsythe) and three other prisoner soldiers (William Demarest, William Campbell and Carl Benton Reid) to make their daring escape through the mercilous Arizona Desert...prowled by the equally unforgiving Mescalero Indians...
The amazing desert scenes were filmed on location in Death Valley - and something tells me that all the sweat seen on Holden & Co. was real! Eleanor Parker was the perfect actresss for Carla; she provides a fantastic ambiguous quality to the role, one of the things which marked her as one of the most talented--but sadly VERY underrated--stars of her generation. I also enjoyed the comic banter between the William Campbell and William Demarest characters.
The DVD from Warners features a basic, albeit unrestored print. Some reels look muddier and dirtier than other ones; and it sadly seems to be incorrectly framed. Colours appear fine, which is a relief considering that most of the movies filmed in the Ansco Color process haven't aged terribly well. The only extra is a trailer.
This movie is also available with another Eleanor Parker title ("Many Rivers to Cross") in Warner's "Western Classics" boxset which includes "The Law and Jake Wade", "Saddle the Wind", "The Stalking Moon", and the 1960 remake of "Cimarron".
DVD Review: Escape From Fort Bravo
Summary: 5 Stars
A fine film typical of the good westerns made in the forties and fifties. William Holden is excellent as always.DVD 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...
DVD Review: Nostalgia makes this fun
Summary: 4 Stars
William Holden is perhaps Hollywood's most underrated actor. Here he shines as Capt Roper the cynical Union soldier who is known for keeping prisoners in Fort Bravo. Despite his cynicism, he raises roses in the desolate Arizona desert.
This movie is a classic western with a love triangle, the battle-hardened soldier who falls in love and the manipulative woman who finds real romance in the least likely place. We also have a harrowing Indian attack.
Despite the cliches, I loved this movie because of Holden's performance. He does play the hardened soldier perfectly and that makes this interesting.
Description of Escape From Fort Bravo
Turner-made western set in 1860's Arizona. Starring Eleanor Parker and Bill Holden. The war between the North and the South has some unexpected effects on the battles between whites and indians leading up to a ambush-finale that's not to be missed.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating:?NR UPC:?883929005123 Manufacturer No:?1000036331Escape from Fort Bravo was the first in a string of sturdy Westerns from director John Sturges (notably including The Magnificent Seven and The Gunfight at OK Corral). It's a Civil War-era tale, with flint-hard U.S. Cavalry officer William Holden riding herd on Confederate POWs at an Arizona stockade. Once Holden has fallen for his colonel's daughter's best friend (Eleanor Parker), who's also secretly the fianc?e of Rebel officer John Forsythe, the film itself is allowed to escape Fort Bravo and echo off the walls of some picturesque canyons well-supplied with hostile Indians. Sturges had a good eye for staging action, and the big climax involves a kind of Apache Agincourt, a patiently lethal military tactic on the part of the Mescaleros. However, as in so many Westerns of the '40s and '50s, some scenes along the way are played on jarringly phony soundstage sets--including a bout of fisticuffs in a waterfall-fed pool (common in that part of Arizona, apparently). Technically speaking, Hollywood was in a transitional moment: for this first MGM production in modest widescreen (1.77:1), cameraman Robert L. Surtees was forced to abandon Technicolor for Ansco color, which has a pleasing palette for standard scenes but tends to go greenish and speckly in desert longshots. On a fond trivia note, one writer credited with original story here is Michael Pate, the gaunt Australian actor who spent much of his career playing Indians; he's not in Escape from Fort Bravo, but this same year he played the Apache chief Vittorio in Hondo, and a decade later, as Sierra Charriba, would occasion the Mexican adventure in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee. --Richard T. Jameson
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