Ulzana's Raid (1972)

R10/27/1972Western1h 43m
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One man alone understood the savagery of the early American west from both sides.

Overview

A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Burt Lancaster

    McIntosh

  2. Cast 1

    Bruce Davison

    Lt. Garnett DeBuin

  3. Cast 1

    Jorge Luke

    Ke-Ni-Tay

  4. Cast 1

    Richard Jaeckel

    Sergeant

  5. Cast 1

    Joaquín Martínez

    Ulzana

  6. Cast 1

    Lloyd Bochner

    Captain Gates

  7. Cast 1

    Karl Swenson

    Rukeyser

  8. Douglass Watson

    Maj. Cartwright

  9. Dran Hamilton

    Mrs. Riordan

Maybe you don't want to think of the white man being savage like the Apache? Apache renegade Ulzana goes on a murder raid, hot on his trail is a posse of cavalrymen. Led by the young and inexperienced Lt. Garnett DeBuin, the cavalrymen in order to survive and defeat Ulzana, must rely on the help of tough old scout McIntosh and his trusty Indian friend, Ke-Ni-Tay. Directed masterfully by Robert Aldrich ("The Dirty Dozen" & "The Longest Yard"), Ulzana's Raid is just shy of being an uncompromising masterpiece. There is no pandering to political correctness here, this is showing the bitter h...