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.
