Escape from Fort Bravo

Dec 4, 1953

1h 39m

★ 6.2

M-G-M's Great Romance Excitingly photographed in Ansco Color

Overview

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Escape from Fort Bravo Trailers

Cast

Captain Roper

William Holden

Carla Forester

Eleanor Parker

Captain Marsh

John Forsythe

Campbell

William Demarest

Cabot Young

William Campbell

Alice Owens

Polly Bergen

Lieutenant Beecher

Richard Anderson

Colonel Owens

Carl Benton Reid

Bailey

John Lupton

Watson (uncredited)

Howard McNear

Symore (uncredited)

William Newell

Sergeant Compton (uncredited)

Glenn Strange

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegade Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam, the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troops are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.

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