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Ulzana's Raid Details

1972 Certificate 18
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Angered at their mistreatment by whites, a group of renegade Apaches escape from their reservation and embark on a rampage of murder, rape and destruction. A veteran army scout, McIntosh (Bruce Lancaster), and an unseasoned young cavalry officer, DeBuin (Bruce Davison), are assigned to track down the malcontented natives. As .. Read more

Starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel
Director Robert Aldrich
Genres Action/Adventure

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Angered at their mistreatment by whites, a group of renegade Apaches escape from their reservation and embark on a rampage of murder, rape and destruction. A veteran army scout, McIntosh (Bruce Lancaster), and an unseasoned young cavalry officer, DeBuin (Bruce Davison), are assigned to track down the malcontented natives. As DeBuin, McIntosh, and their party venture into the unfriendly landscape, issues start to surface about to the morality of their extermination mission. Soon the party of supposedly civil white men are fighting amongst themselves, divided about the task at hand. As much as the moralists struggle, their efforts to stop Ulzana's Raid seem fruitless. On the heels of DIRTY DOZEN and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE, director Robert Aldrich delivers another smash film. Intelligent and edgy, ULZANA'S RAID features all of the standard Aldrich storytelling techniques: characters full of suppressed madness and prejudices, a moral dilemma, and a loaded gun with a slippery trigger waiting to be squeezed. Add the scorching heat of the desert as a backdrop and Aldrich conjures forth another masterpiece: ULZANA'S RAID.

Starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel
Director Robert Aldrich
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Action/Adventure
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 06 Oct 2003
Production year: 1972
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This was attacked by some for being a reactionary return to the depiction of native Americans as bloodthirsty savages and mocked by others for its attempts to combine violent action with diatribes about racial prejudice. Yet Robert Aldrich's powerful 1970s western also has many champions, who see it as both a bold Vietnam allegory and an attempt to restore a semblance of historical accuracy to events coloured by decades of horse-opera exploitation and liberal revisionism. Burt Lancaster is superb as the scout saddened by conflict, while Alan Sharp's script and Joseph Biroc's cinematography are first class.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Even though Aldrich himself proclaimed a certain amount of dissatisfaction with the way this Western turned out, it's... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 5 stars

    Made in 1972, "Ulzana's Raid" is a brutal western in which a cavalry troop pursue a small group of Apaches who have embarked on a rampage of murder and rape. Bruce Davison plays the green-as-grass commander of the cavalry and Burt Lancaster the grizzled, world-weary leader of scouts. Director Robert Aldrich pulls no punches in depicting the aftermath of Apache attacks, but his direction is assured and the violence never gratuitous. The cast give good performances, particularly Davison and Lancaster, the former struggling to understand the savagery of Ulzana and his warriors, and the latter accepting it as simply being the way things are. A neglected modern western, "Ulzana's Raid" is a film I would recommend to any fan of the genre.

      • Andre#11 from CANNOCK
      • Posted 01 Jul 2004 09:32

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    Rated - 3 stars

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    Good old western Burt Lancaster showing the class of his years in films

      • A customer from Scunthorpe
      • Posted 09 Aug 2004 07:44

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      • Angered at their mistreatment by whites, a group of renegade Apaches escape from their reservation and embark on a rampage of murder, rape and destruction. A veteran army scout, McIntosh (Bruce ...