The Man from the Alamo (1953);
Seminole (1953)

July 29, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

The Man from the Alamo (1953)

Directed by Budd Boetticher

When a group of farmers at the besieged Alamo learn their families back home are threatened by raiders, they draw lots to see who will leave their post to protect their loved ones knowing that whoever goes will be branded a coward forever. Like the stoic figures of Boetticher’s later Ranown Westerns, Glenn Ford’s unlucky winner bears the burden of a painful past with grim resolve on the path to redemption.

Universal Pictures. Producer: Aaron Rosenberg. Screenwriter: Steve Fisher, D. D. Beauchamp. Based on a story by Niven Busch. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Editor: Virgil Vogel. Cast: Glenn Ford, Julia Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O’Brian, Victor Jory.

16mm, color, 79 min.

Seminole (1953)

Directed by Budd Boetticher

Boetticher’s “Eastern Western” for Universal finds Rock Hudson, as Army Lieutenant Lance Caldwell, tramping through the sweltering Everglades, under the orders of Richard Carlson’s despotic Major, towards a fateful confrontation with his one time friend turned Indian renegade, Anthony Quinn’s Osceola. Boetticher keeps the action moving while bringing a sensitive hand to the interracial love affair between Osceola and Barbara Hale’s frontier woman.

Universal-International Pictures. Producer: Howard Christie. Screenwriter: Charles K. Peck Jr. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Editor: Virgil Model. Cast: Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale, Richard Carlson, Hugh O’Brian.

35mm, color, 87 min.

Part of:

"Ride Lonesome: The Films of Budd Boetticher"

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The Man from the Alamo (1953); Seminole (1953)