Ulzana's Raid

Director: Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich

Overview

Set in Arizona in the late 19th century, a cynical scout and an idealistic U.S. Cavalry lieutenant set out to catch a group of Apache renegades lead by the chieftain Ulzana. This drama offers food for thought about American military policies and questions the once-popular American tenets of patriotism and racism.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2014
UPC:	0025192096853
Original Release:	1972
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	3,522

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Burt Lancaster	McIntosh
Bruce Davison	Actor
Jorge Luke	Keni-Tay
Richard Jaeckel	Le sergent
Lloyd Bochner	Le capitaine Gates
Karl Swenson	Rukeyser
Dran Hamilton	Mrs. Riordan
John Pearce	Corporal
Gladys Holland	Mrs. Rukeyser
Margaret Fairchild	Mrs. Ginsford
Aimee Eccles	McIntosh's Indian Woman
Richard Bull	Ginsford
Otto Reichow	Steegmeyer
Dean Smith	Horowitz
Larry Randles	Mulkearn
Hal Maguire	Actor
Ted Markland	Trooper
R.L. Armstrong	Trooper
John McKee	Actor,Trooper
Tony Epper	Trooper
Nick Cravat	Trooper
Richard Farnsworth	Trooper
Walter Scott	Trooper
Jerry Gatlin	Trooper
Fred Brookfield	Actor
Bill Burton	Actor,Trooper
Henry Camargo	Actor
Gil Escandon	Actor
Frank Gonzales	Actor
Larry Colelay	Actor
George Aguilar	Indian Brave
Marvin Fragua	Actor
Benny Thompson	Actor
Wallace Sinyella	Actor
Joaquín Martínez	Ulzana
Douglass Watson	le major Cartwright,Actor
Dick Miller	Actor
Chase Winton	Ms. Cleveland
Joaquin Martinez	Actor
Frank De Vol	Composer

Technical Credits

Alan Sharp

Robert Aldrich	Director,Producer
Alan Sharp	Screenwriter
Carter DeHaven III	Producer
Harold Hecht	Producer
Waldon O. Watson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Jim Alexander	Sound/Sound Designer
Carter DeHaven	Producer

Editorial Reviews

One of Burt Lancaster's last great Westerns, Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid (1972) is a tough, searing entrant in the Vietnam cycle of revisionist oaters. With Alan Sharp's script eschewing most of the '60s-'70s sentimentality about the beleaguered Native American, Aldrich austerely and forcefully reveals the potential brutality, as well as honorable intentions, lurking on both sides, as the oft-unseen Ulzana goes on his terrifying rampage. Bruce Davison's pious officer, DeBuin, is a potent index of white naïveté regarding Native American resistance and guerilla tactics, but it is Lancaster's pragmatic, aging scout McIntosh who most powerfully evokes the utter futility and tragedy of the unending conflict between white colonizers and non-white Others. Inspired by the film's Vietnam War resonance and a world view articulated by McIntosh akin to his own, Lancaster's performance was hailed as one of the greatest of his career; critics praised the film's thematic timeliness and rigorous craft. Its unsparing view of the archetypal Western struggle, however, consigned Ulzana's Raid to box-office oblivion.