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This review is from: Unconquered (DVD)
I waited a very long time for this movie to come out on DVD. First saw it in the movie theater. Am still a fan of the great Gary Cooper.Set in the early days of America when many people were shipped to the "colonies" as bond slaves. A great adventure film and worth owning.
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PAULETTE AND GARY,
This review is from: Unconquered (VHS Tape)
Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard), a pretty English convict girl, is ordered deported as a potential slave to the American Colonies. Captain Holden (Gary Cooper) saves her from being auctioned off into slavery, and when she's captured by Indians and subjected to a slow and tortuous death, Holden appears in a flash of gunpowder smoke convincing the Indians that he's a god, so they relinquish Abby to him................THE UNCONQUERED was DeMille's 5 million dollar Technicolored celebration of Cooper's virility and Goddard's femininity and the American Frontier Spirit. Spectacularly stirring and full of fine action scenes, DeMille again screen-vitalised a chapter out of American history. One may say that he supplied both a boistrous and sensational delineation of the frontiersman's era with the full complement of DeMille devices, even to the famed bath sequence, a dip into the serial thrillers when the hero and heroine shoot the rapids to the the edge of a waterfall, and the staging of the battle of Fort Pitt that far outdoes any conflict that was ever dreamt up for a World's Fair carnival!
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Hokey De Mille epic!,
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This review is from: Unconquered (VHS Tape)
"Unconquered" is a silly movie which provides more evidence that ole Cecil B. couldn't direct traffic let alone a major epic. That being said it is still a fun movie if one can overlook the absurd plot twists and Paulette Goddard's lack of talent.One note on the history being portrayed in the movie: I've noticed that several reviewers believe this movie is set during the French and Indian War (1754-1763.) It's not. "Unconquered" is set in the period immediately following the F&I War when New France had already become British Canada. During this period the Indians of the Great Lakes region, under the leadership of an Ottawa chief called Pontiac, rose against the British conquerors because of restrictive British trade policies and in the forlorn hope of encouraging a French return to North America which would restore a trade balance. Pontiac's so called "rebellion" is the setting of "Unconquered" not the French and Indian War.
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