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
Writer: Frank Fenton
Writer: Michael Pate
Writer: Phillip Rock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Mono
Format: DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Unknown
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: "William Holden Series ... Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) ... MGM (2008)"
Summary: 5 Stars
MGM presents "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" (9 December 1953) (98 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, In the Civil War, Fort Bravo is a prison camp for captured southerners --- Its isolated position and unfriendly natives make escape almost impossible, but anyone who tries is always brought back by by-the-book Captain Roper (William Holden) --- Another Captain John Marsh (John Forsythe) a Confederate and a group of prisoners hatch a plot to get away by bringing in a southern belle Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) to distract Roper --- The plan seems to work, but the inhospitable desert, the murderous Indians, and - most importantly - the Colonel apparently wronged in love mean that this is only the start --- William Holden and John Forsythe both love Parker --- Besides the three main leads mentioned above, the supporting cast includes William Demerest, William Campbell, Richard Anderson, Polly Bergen, and in a pre "Broken Arrow" role, John Lupton --- Campbell and Demerest do provide some comic relief, playing off each other's abilities, but the lead actors do carry the picture and prevent it from becoming just another Cavalry-Indians western --- Filmed on location at California's Death Valley, "Escape from Fort Bravo" was co-written by Australian-born actor Michael Pate --- Another brilliant John Sturges film with excellent directing.
Under the production staff of:
John Sturges - Director
Nicholas Nayfack - Producer
Frank Fenton - Screenwriter
Michael Pate - Screen Story
Philip Rock - Screen Story
Robert Surtees - Cinematographer
Jeff Alexander - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Stan Jones - Songwriter
George Boemler - Editor
Malcolm Brown - Art Director
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
Ralph S. Hurst - Set Designer
Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer
Helen Rose - Costume Designer
Warren Newcombe - Special Effects
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. William Holden (aka: William Franklin Beedle Jr.)
Date of Birth: 17 April 1918 - O'Fallon, Illinois
Date of Death: 16 November 1981 - Santa Monica, California
2. Eleanor Parker
Date of Birth: 26 June 1922 - Cedarville, Ohio
Date of Death: Still Living
3. John Forsythe (aka: John Lincoln Freund)
Date of Birth: 29 January 1918 - Penn's Grove, New Jersey
Date of Death: Still Living
4. John Sturges (Director)
Date of Birth: 3 January 1911 - Oak Park, Illinois
Date of Death: 18 August 1992 - San Luis Obispo, California
the cast includes:
William Holden ... Capt. Roper
Eleanor Parker ... Carla Forester
John Forsythe ... Capt. John Marsh
William Demarest ... Campbell
William Campbell ... Cabot Young
Polly Bergen ... Alice Owens
Richard Anderson ... Lt. Beecher
Carl Benton Reid ... Col. Owens
John Lupton ... Bailey
Fred Graham ... Jones
Charles Stevens ... Eilota
Glenn Strange ... Sgt. Compton
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- If you're into the memories of B-Westerns with high drama, this is the one you've been anxiously waiting for --- please stand up and take a bow Western Classics --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 98 mins on DVD ~ Warner Home Video ~ (8/26/2008)
Description of Escape from Fort Bravo
ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO - DVD MovieEscape 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 fiancée 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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