Joseph Cotten

Linda Darnell

Jeff Chandler

Cornel Wilde

Dale Robertson

Jay C. Flippen

Noah Beery Jr.

Johnny Sands

Arthur Hunnicutt

Harry von Zell

Robert Adler

Stanley Andrews

Marjorie Bennett

Chet Brandenburg

Harry Carter

Aurora Castillón

Sally Corner

Don Garner

Everett Glass

Roy Gordon

Lee MacGregor

Ferris Taylor

George K. Hundley

Charity Holt

Fred Holm

William McCarter

Don Nevitt

Ferguson Pollycutt

Ed Pulliam

Sam Tafoya

Brinton Turkles

Hank Potts

Casey Robinson

Robert Wise

Ben Nye

Leon Shamroy

Louis R. Loeffler

Charles LeMaire

Fred Sersen

Alfred Bruzlin

Alfred Newman

Edward Stevenson

Maurice De Packh

Hugo Friedhofer

Chester Gore

Curtis Kenyon

Fred J. Rode

Earle Hagen

Frank S. Nugent

Lyle R. Wheeler

Thomas Little

Harry M. Leonard

Western

Two Flags West

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

"Col. Tucker" (Joseph Cotton) is the Confederate officer who is offered a chance to re-enlist in the US Army after the end of the US Civil war and so he and his men accept - so long as they never have to bear arms against their former colleagues. Now reduced to a Lieutenant, off to the remote and dilapidated Fort Thorn they all go where they find in the commanding officer "Maj. Kenniston" (huff Chandler) a man with a limp and an axe to grind. You'd think they'd have enough on their hands with the marauding Indians raiding the frontier, but nope - these two men manage to get under the other's skin and soon it's probably safer to be outside the fort than inside it! The first half hour follows the traditional path and is nothing special, especially the rather dull romance between an out-of-sorts Linda Darnell ("Elena") - the daughter of the grumpy major and "Bradford" (Cornel Wilde). Once that settles though, we start to get more action with the raiding parties getting bolder and more audacious and the soldiers having to retreat to the safety (they hope) of their wooden enclosure. The last half hour offers us a decent siege western adventure and the denouement - well look not for an happy ending for anyone! Robert Wise takes his time to get this going, but once he does it delivers plenty of action, for once doesn't treat the Indians as if they were rather feeble and intimidated foes and Chandler and Cotton carry off their roles well enough too.

English

Two Flags West 1950) Trailer