Ulzana's Raid (1972) on Netflix
Ulzana leaves the San Carlos reservation with a small Chiricahua war party. Lieutenant Garnett DeBuin rides after them with the scout McIntosh and the Apache guide Ke-Ni-Tay.
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Plot summary
In 1885 Arizona, Fort Lowell learns that Ulzana has broken away from his reservation, taking a band of Chiricahua warriors with him. Riders go out to warn the settlers. The cavalry orders McIntosh, an aging Army scout, to bring the war chief in, and gives him a few dozen soldiers under Lieutenant Garnett DeBuin, a veteran sergeant, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache scout whose wife and Ulzana's wife are sisters. The troop comes upon the trail and upon what the war party has left behind. The soldiers know their enemy's local skills are far better than their own, and DeBuin, shocked by what he sees, stays wary of the Apache guide.
Cast
- Dran Hamiltonas Mrs. Riordan
- John Pearceas Corporal
- Margaret Fairchildas Mrs. Abbie Ginsford
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ulzana's Raid (1972)
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- Two cuts of Ulzana's Raid were made because Burt Lancaster helped produce it: Robert Aldrich supervised the American release, Lancaster the European one, and each version contains complete scenes the other lacks. A German TV station compiled an unauthorized version combining both in 1986, running 111 minutes.
- Robert Aldrich said that from the time shooting started to the time it finished, 50 to 60 percent of Alan Sharp's script was changed, and that Sharp was so prolific he could write 25 pages a day.
- Robert Aldrich named Burt Lancaster's scout character John McIntosh after John McIntire, the actor who played the Indian scout Al Sieber in Aldrich's 1954 film Apache, and called it an inside joke he was not sure Alan Sharp ever understood.
- Alan Sharp said the Ulzana of his screenplay is not the Chiricahua Apache of history, whose real raid was more protracted, ruthless and daring than the one he wrote about.
