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By what name was The Undefeated (1969) officially released in India in English? See more gaps. Learn more about contributing.
The Undefeated. Before filming began, John Wayne had to lose most of the weight he had put on in order to play Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). Rock Hudson was asked not to bring his partner on location for the three-month shoot.
After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries.
The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western and Civil War-era film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. The film portrays events surrounding the French Imperial intervention in Mexico during the 1860s period of the neighboring American Civil War.
But then McLaglen gets bogged down in an ineptly handled love triangle involving Hudson's daughter, Wayne's adopted Indian son and a young Confederate. The love affair mostly consists of the girl exchanging wisecracks with the reb and long sighs with the Indian.
At the end of the Civil War, Union Col. John Henry Thomas, his adopted son Blue Boy, a Cheyenne Indian, and 10 of his command travel to Oklahoma, intending to sell horses to the United States Cavalry.
As the war ends, Union Army Colonel John Henry Thomas retires and takes his adopted Cherokee Indian son Blue Boy and the surviving men from his company to Mexico, where they bring a herd of 3,000 wild horses they sold to representatives of Emperor Maximilian for top dollar.
