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Release Date: 1999-11-23
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
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| very diappointed!! in poor shape, unviewableNot able to view, jumpy, double imaged, black and white, not color. Hoping to return, very,very disappointed especially being a gift for my Dad, and this being one of his all time favorite movies. Shipped late, and inside email said that it was in European PAL format, what the heck is that??? If it is unviewable by U.S.A. normally functioning VCR of what use is it to anyone??? Unless I can return and receive another in excellent condition, I will not purchase another item from this seller!! Beware!
Ulzana's RaidThere was a deleted scene where the trooper dies shortly after holding horses after attack from wounded apache the sergeant was ordered to go after.
An absolute classic!!!I won't keep you long. This is one of the best Westerns ever made period! Jorge Luke's performance alone makes this movie great! Lancaster plays his role with unstated excellence. The story, filming, direction; in fact the whole production is superb. I wouldn't be without a copy.
Ulzana's RaidFans of "Valdez is Coming" should defintitely enjoy it. The two movies were made in the same timeline and Burt Lancaster did a fine performance in each. In this story once again he plays a similar role as a tracker. This time tracking an Apache leaving a path of destruction. I highly recommend this movie, but I highly recommend you don't pay the outrageous sellers that should not be allowed by Amazon to sell for $75 to $339. Eventually this will be made available on DVD again for a reasonable price. If you have a multi-region player you definitely can find it cheaper. If you enjoyed this catch "The Professionals" and "The Hallelujah Trail".
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Well worth tracking downUlzana's Raid follows a cavalry patrolled by Bruce Davison's idealistic but inexperienced West Pointer and guided by Lancaster's scout in their pursuit of a small band of Apaches who have left the reservation to rekindle their `power' by torturing and killing as many settlers as they can find. It's a stark, brilliant film that is a notable influence on Walter Hill's Geronimo (which even borrows from it directly on a couple of occasions), but has a level of cruelty that the later film lacks. Unlike its contemporaries which took up the Native American cause, this never idealises or demonises either side: even Lancaster's scout proves catastrophically less competent in matters of strategy than in tracking or attempting to explain the enemy's way of thinking. For the most part it's a conflict between two different cultures that can never understand or tolerate each other, carried out almost without malice despite its brutality. As Lancaster points out, "It's just the way they are. It's like hating the desert because there ain't any water in it."
With a superb screenplay by Alan Sharp, a fine Frank De Vol score and muscular, unsentimental direction by Aldrich that takes no prisoners, it's one of the key Westerns of the Seventies, even if parts of it proved too shocking for audiences for it to gain much of a reputation at the time. It's strong meat, but it's more than worth the price of admission.
Unlike the UK video, which offered Burt Lancaster's European cut, which has the same running time but some additional footage at the expense of some deleted scenes, this Region 2 PAL DVD is Robert Aldrich's US cut of the film. It would have been nice had the DVD offered both cuts, but since they haven't even included a trailer, let alone any deleted or alternate scenes, that's being wildly optimistic. It's worth noting that both the UK and Dutch DVDs are slightly cut, with a key horse fall taken out leaving part of the film's most shocking sequence (when a female settler and her cavalry escort are attacked) nigh-on incomprehensible to the uninitiated.
Amazon.comRobert Aldrich pulls no punches in his unrelentingly brutal story of a reign of terror perpetrated on Arizona settlers by a bitter Apache warrior and the cavalry's frustrated attempts to stop him. Burt Lancaster, a longtime Aldrich collaborator and star of the similar 1954 Western Apache, brings his laconic, quietly authoritative presence to the role of McIntosh, a blunt-speaking, introspective old army scout with more respect than hate for his enemy. A very young Bruce Davison is the green-as-a-sapling Lieutenant DeBuin, fresh from West Point and filled with Christian ideals, thrown into the field against the vicious, tactically brilliant Ulzana. DeBuin is shocked and appalled at Ulzana's brutality--torturing male homesteaders to death, raping the women, leaving a trail of mutilated corpses--and as he struggles to understand Ulzana his values of Christian charity soon melt into racist hatred. Ulzana's tactics were familiar to Americans in 1972 who followed the war in Vietnam and the guerrilla attacks of the Vietcong. Like The Wild Bunch before it, Ulzana's Raid removes the sentimentality of Western ideals in its harsh portrayal of the violent world, though unlike Sam Peckinpah, Aldrich leaves the violence off-screen and allows the audience to see only the horrific aftermath. (These scenes are often graphic and not recommended for the squeamish.) It's a disturbing and powerful film, where the concept of good guys and bad guys becomes meaningless and the battle between cultures ultimately comes down to survival in a harsh world. --Sean Axmaker
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