Border River (1954)
They Had a Date With Destiny in the Powder-Keg of the West...ZONA LIBRE
ジャンル : 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 21分
演出 : George Sherman
脚本 : William Sackheim, Louis Stevens
シノプシス
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
舞台は南北戦争の時代。北軍の大佐ショーは初めての黒人部隊の指揮官となった。兵士の大多数は南部からの脱走奴隷だったが、ショーは彼らに誇りと熱気を感じていた……。男たちの栄光を描く感動巨編。
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
During the Civil War, five condemned Southern prisoners are plucked off Death Row and promised pardons on the condition that they undertake a mission to head west and bring back a double-crossing Confederate spy who has a stagecoach full of Confederate gold.
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful military dictator who forces them to spy for him or help the local village fight for its independence. Follow Sergeant Hansen and his men as they make a decision that could cost them their lives.
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is a Union soldier. Lassiter falls for Beth, and when Indians attack, they head to a cavalry camp where Lassiter must battle the Indians as well as Beth's fiancé.
A fraternity president becomes obsessed with a young coed but his hopeful courtship decays into sinister pursuit as unnatural secrets surface about his brotherhood.
A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.
The Confederate Army wants to get an important message through to General Lee, but all the carrier pigeons have been shot down. Tweety steps in.
荒事からは足を洗っていたウィリアム・マニーの元へ若いガンマンが訪れる。娼婦に傷を負わせ賞金をかけられた無法者を追うためだ。マニーのかつての相棒ネッドを加えた3人は追跡行に出かけるが、その頃、町の実力者の保安官ビルは疎ましい賞金稼ぎたちを袋叩きにしているところだった。やがてビルの暴力が黒人であるネッドにも及んだ。
J・ウェイン、D・マーティン共演、町の実力者の弟を逮捕した保安官チャンスが、わずかな手勢で一味の勢力に立ち向かう、ハワード・ホークス監督の傑作娯楽ウエスタン。 メキシコ国境の町リオ・ブラボー。保安官チャンスは、酒場のゴタゴタから人を殺したジョーという男を逮捕した。ジョーの兄ネイサンは手下を集め、釈放を求めてチャンスを脅迫する。チャンスはわずかな手勢で、ネイサン一派を迎え撃つが……。
セルジオ・レオーネ監督が、主演チャールズ・ブロンソンをはじめ豪華出演陣で描く西部劇の傑作。土地を狙う鉄道王モートンの差し金で夫を失ったジル。その後も執拗に狙われる彼女にもとに謎のガンマンが現れて……。
セルジオ・レオーネ監督&クリント・イーストウッドによるマカロニ・ウエスタンの金字塔。無法者たちの勢力争いがやまない国境の町サン・ミゲルを舞台に、風来坊ガンマンが荒唐無稽な痛快アクションを繰り広げる。
コンビを組んでお尋ね者の懸賞金をだまし取っていたジョーとテュコ。二人はある日、逃走中の強奪犯から、20万ドルもの大金を奪う。だがその金をねらって、セテンサという凄腕のガンマンがやってきた……。三人の男たちの、虚虚実実の駆け引きをユーモラスに描いた痛快ウェスタン。