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Aka: Escape From Fort Bravo
A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business, capable of capturing every escaped convict under his supervision. However, when he falls in love with a visiting woman some of the prisoners seize the advantage and try to escape while he is in a more "mellow" mood.
A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco colors (forerunner of Eastmancolor). After ruthlessly dragging an escaped prisoner through the Arizona desert, Union Army Captain Roper (William Holden) suffers rebuke from both the rebel prisoners and his commanding officer (Carl Benton Reid). Things settles down a bit with the arrival of Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker), with whom Roper falls in love. But Carla proves to be a Confederate spy assigned to engender the escape of Captain Marsh (John Forsythe), the Rebel leader. The plan succeeds...
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to a point but the escapees are hunted down by Roper and Lieutenant Beecher (Richard Anderson). Returning to Fort Bravo with his prisoners, Roper and his captives ride right into a Mescalero Apache hunting party. Filmed on location at California's Death Valley, Escape from Fort Bravo was co-written by Australian-born actor Michael Pate.
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Tijdens de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog moet de wrede en gehate kapitein Roper van de Noordelijken in het afgelegen en door Mescalero's bedreigde Fort Bravo een groep rebellen van de Zuidelijken bewaken. Als op een dag de zeer aantrekkelijke Carla Forester het fort bezoekt, weet ze Ropers sympathie te winnen. Carla heeft echter een geheime missie, waar John Marsh, de gevangen genomen kapitein van de Zuidelijken, deel van uit maakt.