Synopsis
A Story Beyond Any Bigness the Screen Has Shown – The First Production from Warner Bros. in CinemaScope
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
1954 Directed by David Butler
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Rear Guard, La poursuite dura 7 jours, Die siebente Nacht, L'invasore bianco, Retaguardia, La poursuite dura sept jours, Sob o Comando da Morte, 骑兵肉搏战, Капитан
David Butler’s western in which an inexperienced army surgeon (Guy Madison) is left with no option but to take charge of a cavalry horde ushering a wagon train through aggressive Indian territory.
Adapted from the novel Rear Guard by James Warner Bellah, which was published four years earlier, the story concerns Robert MacClaw (Guy Madison), a captain with little experience, who is requested by his superior to be in charge of a group of soldiers. While he promises to do his best, a plague of smallpox and war between his friends interrupt his strategies.
Guy Madison gives a good performance in his role as the inexperienced captain whose plans don’t go the way he had been hoping for, while Joan…
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I didn't have the best of days when it comes to westerns, lads.
I watched three of them today, and that The Command was almost the best of them just goes to show that Film4 and TCM really didn't deliver the goods at all. I should have watched The Mouse That Roared instead.
Still, at least this one had something going for it and that was injuns. You know, I've watched loads of bloody westerns the last few weeks and there hasn't been so much as a sniff of an injun in any of them that I can remember.…
"Die siebente Nacht" ist ein Kavalleriewestern, der den Kampf gegen aufständische Indianer glorifiziert und damit heutige Maßstäbe der politischen Korrektheit weit verfehlt. Der Western sollte ursprünglich 3D-Szenen beinhalten, jedoch entschied man sich während der Dreharbeiten um. Trotzdem zeugen zahlreiche Naturaufnahmen und Panoramaszenen mit oft suchendem Kamerablick, der die Aufmerksamkeit des Zuschauers lenkt, von bestem visuellen Gespür des Kameramann und gleichen das Mittelmaß der Geschichte mit formaler Schönheit aus.
I gotta admit that this movie is kinda racist but to be honest I love action packed Westerns with straightforward plots, and I had a good time. So whatever 🤷🏽♂️
CinemaScope western in which inexperienced military doctor Captain MacClaw (Guy Madison) is put in command of a cavalry patrol in Wyoming territory and then has to deal with resentful subordinates, hostile Indians (Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux), a possible small pox outbreak among wagon train pioneers, and an infantry sergeant felled by a stroke. It's entertaining enough, with crisp action sequences in the third act, but could've used a more interesting leading man than Madison. Screenplay by Samuel Fuller and Russell S. Hughes, from James Warner Bellah's "The White Invader," a novel serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and then published by Popular Library as "Rear Guard" (the film's shooting title). Bellah may have based MacClaw on Leonard Wood, an army…