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Major Dundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn.
Major Dundee: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn. In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
During the end of the Civil War, Major Dundee guards Confederate prisoners, Union deserters and ordinary hard-bitten criminals in a remote fort.
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In 1864 Major Amos Dundee leads his troops into Mexico after a group of renegade Apache Indians, led by Sierra Chariba. On a recent raid, they kidnapped some young boys and Dundee is committed to retrieving them. His own Union troops are supplemented by Confederate prisoners of war.
May 4, 2022 · Charlton Heston is Maj. Dundee, a hard-nosed officer serving time as commander of a prisoner-of-war camp out West during the Civil War. He’s eager to make a name for himself and figures he can do that by ending an Apache uprising, rescuing three white boys kidnapped during a massacre at a nearby ranch and bringing in a chief named Sierra ...
Major Dundee is a Civil War-era western whose story and production have already been recounted on tcm.com. The somewhat restored and extended version produced in 2005, however, requires a little more backstory.
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Jun 30, 2021 · Charlton Heston stars as Major Amos Dundee, a vainglorious Union Cavalry officer, who mounts an expedition to hunt down Apache war chief Sierra Charriba.
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
