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Definitely a great Western and one of my personal favorites, Major Dundee, brings to the screen such heavyweights as Charlton Heston and Richard Harris, whose performances are outstanding, making this movie one of the best of its kind. The acting, the battles and the costumes are all wonderful! Major Dundee is a movie about honor, bravery, and heroes from a time long...
Publié le Fév 29 2004 par L Gontzes
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A flawed western.
They say this movie was cut to ribbons by order of overanxious studio execs, and it certainly shows. The movie starts out great with Major Dundee (Heston), a Federal cavalry officer who has seen his career plummet from fighting in the battles of the Civil War to a POW camp warden, being forced to recruit Confederate POW's to help him track down an Apache raider...
Publié le Fév 16 2000
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Wrong Turn, Mai 30 2004
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Sam Peckinpah's bungling of this film and his discharge from "The Cincinnati Kid" nearly terminated his directorial career, and "Dundee" gives a hint of the self-destructive inclincations that eventually put him out of business for good. The disciplined creator of "The Rifleman" and "The Westerner" TV series and director of the masterpiece "Ride the High Country" went completely haywire on "Dundee," much to the shock of the studio backing it, and although Peckinpah tried to shift the blame, it was his alone for mounting a disastrously disorganized production of a thoroughly idiotic script. His principal reason for pushing the project apparently was his desire to film in Mexico, a country for whose women he was devloping an all-consuming passion. That and his incipient alcoholism were having severe personality repercussions and giving an ugly cast to Peckinpah's works that he never shook completely.
This story of a Union POW camp officer using Confederate prisoners to cross into Mexico to hunt for Apaches has no basis in historical reality whatsoever and there isn't a single believable scene as a consequence.
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BRAVO!!!, Fév 29 2004
Definitely a great Western and one of my personal favorites, Major Dundee, brings to the screen such heavyweights as Charlton Heston and Richard Harris, whose performances are outstanding, making this movie one of the best of its kind. The acting, the battles and the costumes are all wonderful!
Major Dundee is a movie about honor, bravery, and heroes from a time long gone.
A great movie indeed!
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Mangled to pieces, Fév 7 2003
Despite being ripped apart in the editing room, Major Dundee still manages to be a very entertaining western. Supposedly the movie was supposed to clock in at just under three hours, but the editing cut it down to just over two hours. It is a shame that it was mangled so badly since it has a lot of potential.
Major Dundee stars Charlton Heston as Amos Dundee, a Union officer banished to the west for a mistake he made in the heat of battle. Richard Harris co-stars, he steals many scenes, as Confederate officer Benjamin Tyreen, an old friend of Dundee who was betrayed by him at a court martial hearing. Dundee organizes a ragtag bunch of Confederate prisoners, black Union infantry, frontiersman, and Jim Hutton as the bumbling artillery officer, Lt. Graham, assigned to the cavalry, to pursue Sierra Cheriba, a renegade Apache. Dundee's troop runs into the Apache as well as French lancers in Mexico amidst many well-executed action sequences. The final battle in the river should not be missed. The movie does leave a few parts with no conclusion, but overall the film is well worth the watch. Great supporting cast with James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Senta Berger. Great action with good storyline. Too bad the movie got mangled since it is very good even mangled as it is. To all you Peckinpah fans out there, go out and get this movie!
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Flawed but very watchable, Juil 18 2001
Despite being cut to pieces by its penny-pinching producer and then subsequently disowned by its director, MAJOR DUNDEE is a rather well-made antidote of sorts to those John Ford/John Wayne cavalry westerns that came before. Sam Peckinpah, on only his third movie overall and first with a big budget, managed to get enough on screen so that whatever flaws it might have are mostly kept to a minimum.Heston plays an ambitious Union officer of an Army prison in New Mexico during the last months of the Civil War. When a band of marauding Apache destroy a nearby ranch, its occupants, and a regiment of his own troops, Heston sees a chance to get out of his run-of-the-mill job, for he sees himself as "a professional soldier, not a prison keeper." He assembles a ragtag regiment consisting of civilians, Union officers, negroes, and Confederates to go after the Apache. The pursuit, however, takes Dundee's gang across the Rio Grande into a northern Mexico now occupied by the French. Not only do they have to find the Apache and keep the peace amongst themselves, they also now have to avoid as much contact with the French lancers as well. The flaws in MAJOR DUNDEE are rather evident. It probably wasn't necessary for a love story involving Heston and a female village doctor (Senta Berger) to be inserted within. And as many reviewers have stated, there are a lot of loose ends in the story that needed connecting, and they all seem to have been left on the cutting room floor. Including them might have made this a 3-hour film instead of just 2 hours and 2 minutes, but MAJOR DUNDEE might actually have been a masterpiece. Despite the flaws, the film is redeemed by its cast giving solid performances. Heston is, of course, at his best in the title role; yet even he is matched line-for-line by Richard Harris as Tyreen, his former friend and now sworn enemy. James Coburn also contributes a wry line or two as the one-armed scout Sam Potts. There is also Peckinpah's cast of the Usual Suspects here as well: L.Q. Jones, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong, Warren Oates, Slim Pickens, and Dub Taylor. MAJOR DUNDEE also shows Peckinpah willing to stretch the violence angle a bit; the battle scenes are bloody enough to have warranted at least a 'PG-13' rating. He would up the ante in this department considerably when he made THE WILD BUNCH. To sum it up, MAJOR DUNDEE is a flawed movie, but one that remains compellingly watchable. Filmed almost exclusively on location in Mexico.
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Follow Major Heston!, Avril 3 2001
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I must first confess, that I had never heard of this movie in questions before, i.e., Major Dundee VHS ~ Charlton Heston. However, the movie turned out to a hidden gem (one of those rare gems that one should cherish and not misplace under any circumstances). The plot, storyline and script is well developed and the characters are well developed and the dialogue is very natural; and does therefore not seem forced or phony. I have to agree with another reviewer whom wrote the following " Very fine cast and lavish production make up for overlong, confused story of cavalry officer (Heston) who leads assorted misfits against Apaches. Peckinpah disowned the film, which was re-cut by others. Panavision." Peckinpah should have reconsidered disowning (since just as Kubrick did with Spartacus), Peckinpah disowned a fine movie with an excellent story line, Heston doing what he does best, i.e., playing his role with vigor, fortitude, resolve and with so much swagger, confidence and conviction that one is sure that he was a Major at one point in his life. Definitely a movie that I would recommend as I see it as action packed, intense and definitely a must see movie.
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Fall In Behind the Major!!!!!!!, Mars 26 2001
Most fans of Charlton Heston know that he made his early career out of playing larger than life historical figures in movies that we now call epics. In this movie Heston plays Major Amos Dundee, a southern born Union cavalry officer who has seen his once promising career plummet when he is assigned as the warden of a federal military prison in the territory of New Mexico in 1864. In addition to holding off Confederates in neighboring Texas, the 5th US Cavalry was charged with containing marauding Apaches. Short on troops, Heston is forced to recruit among Confederate POWs, who are shown living in absolute squalor in the adobe walled prison. This is not as far-fetched as some would think. During the Civil War, the Union did recruit among Confederate POWs for just this purpose. They were not required to take an oath of allegiance to the United States and they were promised that they would only be used to fight Indians. Many Confederate soldiers did so, if only to get better rations, new clothes and a chance to avoid the disease and misery that permeated the camps. After Heston recruits his ad hoc force, which includes Confederates, Black Union infantry, frontiersmen and Indian scouts, he sets off in pursuit of the renegade Apaches led by Sierra Charibe. After the Apaches cross the Rio Grande, the small force must deal with not only the marauding Indians, but French troops as well. Remember your history here folks. Shortly after our Civil War began, Emperor Louis Napoleon of France took advantage of the situation and invaded Mexico and violated the Monroe Doctrine. A weakened US government was in no position to deal with the French as it fought against the Confederates at the same time. This movie also serves as something of a history lesson because it deals very effectively with the United States as something less than a world power and as a country divided by its own internal contradictions and divisions. Heston is well cast as the intractable, inflexible and unbending Union officer. His Confederate nemesis is Richard Harris as Benjamin Tyreen. Tyreen, like Dundee is a West Point graduate and had served on the Mexican frontier before the Civil War. But unlike Dundee, who was born in the USA (some unidentified Southern state), Tyreen is an immigrant Irishman who benefited from a West Point education. Prior to the Civil War, Dundee votes at a court-martial to cashier Tyreen from the regiment they both serve in. Tyreen does not forgive and forget and he eventually offers his services to the southern cause where he is a Confederate cavalry officer when captured. The animosity between the two characters is very real and unlike the movie GETTYSBURG where the mutual admiration between Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and CSA General Lewis Armistead is genuine and touching, in MAJOR DUNDEE, the viewer wonders when the two lead characters will finally tear into each other. In some of the scenes though, the intense dislike is so heavy handed as to be unbelievable. Tyreen and his rebs are quick to remind Dundee and the federal troops that they serve only "until the Indian is taken or destroyed." This is a Sam Peckinpagh action movie, although they did inject a love interest for Heston in the way of the then beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger. Also present were Warren Oates, James Coburn and Ben Johnson. Like the small cavalry force in pursuit of the Indians, the story meanders a little, but that's okay. This is sort of a more realistic version of the old-time western and if you like that type of movie, you'll like MAJOR DUNDEE.
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A flawed western., Fév 16 2000
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They say this movie was cut to ribbons by order of overanxious studio execs, and it certainly shows. The movie starts out great with Major Dundee (Heston), a Federal cavalry officer who has seen his career plummet from fighting in the battles of the Civil War to a POW camp warden, being forced to recruit Confederate POW's to help him track down an Apache raider. Unfortunatly, the movie eventually loses focus and just meanders along. It seems disjointed and, at times, just patched together. Part of the fault was the studio execs decision to cut it down and part of it was Peckinpah's who started filming without a complete script much to Heston's dismay. The result is a flawed film with some good performances, especially Richard Harris, and some great action sequences which were a Peckinpah specialty.
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I'll bet peckinpah's own version would be even better, Jui 29 1999
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anyone who likes this movie,knows that it's a butchered version.Sam Peckinpah's version ran close to three hours,but,the geniuses at mgm decided to cut it up.Hopefully,we will see the full length version(why is it so hard to restore a movie?how hard can it be?what's the big deal,anyway?it is just a movie)
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I'll bet peckinpah's own version would be even better, Jui 29 1999
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anyone who likes this movie,knows that it's a butchered version.Sam Peckinpah's version ran close to three hours,but,the geniuses at mgm decided to cut it up.Hopefully,we will see the full length version(why is it so hard to restore a movie?how hard can it be?what's the big deal,anyway?it is just a movie)
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action great history and good soundtrack keep you on theedge, Mai 9 1999
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well its great for western lovers it will keep you on the edge of your seats the whole time. charlton heston plays a great role as major dundee.while he is escorting confederate soilders he has tangles with apaches.he and his commanding officer dont get along very good either and the film is filmed on location in old mexico.
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