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Alvarez Kelly is a 1966 American Western film set in the American Civil War directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring William Holden and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the historic Beefsteak Raid of September 1864 led by Confederate Major General Wade Hampton III.
Alvarez Kelly: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal. During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.
Jun 22, 2019 · William Holden is Alvarez Kelly, a man who’s found a way to profit off the Civil War. He buys cattle in Texas at $2 a head then drives them East for sale to the Union army and Maj. Albert Steadman for a handsome profit.
Apr 3, 2018 · TCM Diary: Alvarez Kelly and the Confederates. Alvarez Kelly opens with images of hieroglyphs conveying the ancient nature of human conflict, over which a narrator informs viewers that “in every war, in every age, the forgotten weapon is food… a herd of cattle is as vital as a herd of cannon.”.
Based on a true Civil War incident, Alvarez Kelly (1966) tells the story of a renegade adventurer (William Holden) - the title character - who delivers a herd of 2500 cattle to Union forces on a Virginia plantation.
Oct 11, 2020 · Set during the Civil War, Alvarez Kelly stars William Holden and Richard Widmark in a tale based on the historic Beefsteak Raid of September 1864, led by Confederate Major General Wade Hampton III.
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Alvarez Kelly ★★½ 1966. Offbeat western with Holden as the Mexican-Irish Kelly who has just sold a herd of cattle to the North during the Civil War. Confederate officer Widmark kidnaps Holden in an effort to have the cattle redirected to the South.
