
Having a welcome strategic expertise in both the hot and dank Florida swamplands and the local tribe of Seminole Indians, brilliant and ethical West Point graduate Second Lieutenant Lance Caldwell is transferred to scheming Major Degan's Everglades outpost in 1835. Supposedly impeding the development of white civilization, the Seminoles must be expelled from their native lands at all costs; all that stands between the aspirations of the venomous commanding officer and the las... (Full plot summary below)
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Having a welcome strategic expertise in both the hot and dank Florida swamplands and the local tribe of Seminole Indians, brilliant and ethical West Point graduate Second Lieutenant Lance Caldwell is transferred to scheming Major Degan's Everglades outpost in 1835. Supposedly impeding the development of white civilization, the Seminoles must be expelled from their native lands at all costs; all that stands between the aspirations of the venomous commanding officer and the last of the Indian clans is Caldwell. Sooner or later, a dead sentry and a fiery clash with the men of powerful Seminole leader Chief Osceola, will stain the vast and impassable marshes with blood, as a strong-willed beautiful woman stands in the middle. Can Caldwell be the voice of reason and compromise?
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| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostPowerful pro-Native American Western, with gripping story telling. |
| User ReviewZoran SNot great and marred by its obvious message. However, Boetticher's direction is very good and the film has some powerful sequences. |
| User Reviewjay nBetter than average drama with a decidedly pro Indian slant was one of the many films Rock cranked out on his way up. He gives a good performance, one of his better early ones, as the resolute soldier who is on trial for his life. The cast is full of familiar faces most of whom were also just starting out and would go on to great fame like Lee Marvin, in good guy mode here, and Russell Johnson. Richard Carlson is the sore spot in the picture, he starts out okay but ends up chewing the scenery in an over the top performance. Barbara Hale was never particularly well served by films having much more success on TV as Della Street on Perry Mason nor is she very well used here but she looks probably the best she ever did on screen beautifully shot in Technicolor and with one of the greatest character names ever, Revere Muldoon. Not really a western, not even set in the west but Florida this is an enjoyable picture especially for military history buffs. |
| User ReviewAdam Da good Florida western filmed in the Everglades nice horses to more then Distant Drums. |
| User ReviewTom HDecent Western with Rock Hudson arriving as a scout to a mad mans command, Unable to see eye to eye on Seminole Indian matters turmoil ensues as one man is driven by his own success , and the other is driven by a moral code. The ending was a little too easy for me, it should have ended with the path that the film seemed to be taken. But that would not be your typical Hollywood ending at that time. |