Estrondo de Tambores (1961)
A regiment of forgotten men... a woman no man could forget!
Gênero : Faroeste
Runtime : 1H 37M
Director : Joseph M. Newman
Sinopse
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under the command of the tough Captain and he does not seem to be able to do anything right. Lt. McQuade also has trouble with Tracey, but it will be the renegade Indians that will test him and teach him the importance of following orders.
Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane and his prisoner spend the night with other travelers, including 2 women with a surprising number of fancy dresses. In the morning, who should appear but a band of ostensibly peaceful Apaches strayed from the reservation. And bigoted Colonel Morsby is strongly inclined to shoot first and ask questions afterward...
Cowan procura pelo seu amigo de infância Catlow, mas revela-se que Cowan é um oficial de polícia e a relação entre ambos não será nada fácil. Catlow é um ladrão, que junto com seus homens, reuniu gado sem marcar e planeja vendê-lo em Abilene. As intenções de Catlow podem gerar sérios conflitos para os fazendeiros, que se veriam obrigados a subir os salários de seus empregados para que não imitem a estratégia.
Tommy is an innocent cavalry officer who falls in love with a beautiful Apache woman after rescuing her from a nasty gun smuggler named Honest Jeremy. When Jeremy and his gang find Tommy, gruesome violence ensues.
Capitão Roper (William Holden) é o guardião de um campo de prisioneiros gerenciado pela União. Uma misteriosa mulher chamada Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) chega ao acampamento, a fim de libertar os prisioneiros confederados, e as coisas se complicam quando Carla e o capitão começam a se apaixonar.. Em um esforço para recapturar os fugitivos, Roper tem um encontro com um grupo de índios Mescalero. Para sobreviver, ele terá que se unir com seus prisioneiros e lutar contra os índios.
Três anos após o final das Guerras Apache, o chefe pacificador Cochise vem a falecer. O seu filho mais velho, Taza (Rock Hudson), também divide com o pai as mesmas idéias sobre a paz entre os povos, mas seu irmão Naiche (Bart Roberts) anseia pela guerra... e também por destronar seu irmão e conseguir o amor de Oona (Barbara Rush). Naiche não perde tempo para começar uma nova briga com o homem branco, e graças ao orgulho desmedido do oficial da cavalaria local, o estopim da guerra finalmente explode. O renegado capturado Gerônimo (Ian MacDonald) logo se junta a eles nessa nova batalha, e ninguém sabe ao certo quem poderá vencer essa guerra que parece nunca ter fim...
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen
Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold mine.
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?
Rio Bravo se passa após a Guerra Civil, quando a União volta sua atenção para os Apaches. O oficial da união Kirby Yorke está no comando de um posto avançado no Rio Grande no qual ele é responsável pelo treinamento de novos recrutas, um dos quais é o seu filho a quem não vê há 15 anos. Ele é tratado severamente para ficar em forma e enfrentar os Apaches, mas não antes de sua mãe aparecer para levá-lo embora. A decisão é deixada para o Soldado Yorke que decide ficar e lutar. Em meio a tudo isso Kirby e Kathleen apesar de separadas por anos voltam a se apaixonar e decidem que é hora de fazer uma nova tentativa. Atenção, não confunda com o filme homônimo em inglês "Rio Bravo" (1959) que no Brasil tem o título de "Onde Começa o Inferno".
A história traz imitadores de Elvis, índios, cowboys modernos, um assassino loiro de 2 metros de altura, um garoto, um xerife corrupto e uma prostituta em uma perseguição de um artefato de valor inestimável roubado durante um jogo de pôquer em um cassino indígena.
Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small band of soldiers at a water hole. They are ambushed and laid siege to by Apache. As their food and water supplies dwindle a storm arrives which enables Cates to put an escape plan into action.
Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush.
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie (Nance O'Neil), who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position. Feeling deeply hurt, Kovacs decides to take revenge by indulging in blackmail, spreading a rumor that he is an imposter and a swindler.