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.