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04/10/1969 Western 1h 59m
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Across 2000 Miles Of Savage Wasteland... They Lived A Thundering Adventure That Rocked Two Nations!

Overview

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.

  1. Andrew V. McLaglen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Wayne

    Colonel John Henry Thomas

  2. Rock Hudson

    Colonel James Langdon

  3. Antonio Aguilar

    General Rojas

  4. Roman Gabriel

    Blue Boy

  5. Marian McCargo

    Ann

  6. Lee Meriwether

    Margaret

  7. Merlin Olsen

    Little George

  8. Melissa Newman

    Charlotte

  9. Bruce Cabot

    Jeff Newby

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-26
Obviously contrived with the box office in mind, this is an OK western that sees John Wayne (the rough and ready Yankee colonel) and Rock Hudson (the suave, debonaire, but broke, plantation owning Confederate colonel) and their respective ex-soldiers form an uneasy partnership after the US Civil war, to drive some horses to their new owner, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. En route, they have the usual sequence of "Red River" (1948) style escapades before encountering treachery on a fairly grand scale that puts the lives of themselves and their horses at risk. There is a bit of chemistry between ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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