Budd Boetticher

He was a Texas hero...but branded a coward! Glenn Ford starts in a sprawling, action-packed Western that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon train journey through hostile territory. Ford plays John Stroud, a freedom fighter who agrees to leave his post at the Alamo so he can warn his family and neighbors of approaching Mexican armies. When he discovers he's too late, he swears vengeance on the Yankee mercenaries who, fighting for Mexico, have murdered his wife and child. At the same time, Stroud must face the accusations of his outraged countrymen, who believe he fled his post in an act of cowardice. Only by confronting the enemy can he redeem himself in his fellow citizens' eyes - and in his own.

He was a Texas hero...but branded a coward! Glenn Ford starts in a sprawling, action-packed Western that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon train journey through hostile territory. Ford plays John Stroud, a freedom fighter who agrees to leave his post at the Alamo so he can warn his family and neighbors of approaching Mexican armies. When he discovers he's too late, he swears vengeance on the Yankee mercenaries who, fighting for Mexico, have murdered his wife and child. At the same time, Stroud must face the accusations of his outraged countrymen, who believe he fled his post in an act of cowardice. Only by confronting the enemy can he redeem himself in his fellow citizens' eyes - and in his own.

He was a Texas hero...but branded a coward! Glenn Ford starts in a sprawling, action-packed Western that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon train journey through hostile territory. Ford plays John Stroud, a freedom fighter who agrees to leave his post at the Alamo so he can warn his family and neighbors of approaching Mexican armies. When he discovers he's too late, he swears vengeance on the Yankee mercenaries who, fighting for Mexico, have murdered his wife and child. At the same time, Stroud must face the accusations of his outraged countrymen, who believe he fled his post in an act of cowardice. Only by confronting the enemy can he redeem himself in his fellow citizens' eyes - and in his own.

Löjtnant Lance Caldwell sitter åtalad för mord vid Fort King, Florida 1835. Han ger sin berättelse om när den amerikanska armén angrep de kvarvarande seminoleindianerna i träskmarkerna och om hur hans försök att bevara freden motarbetades av överbefälhavare Harlan Degan.

Florida, 1835. Det brutala seminolekriget rasar i Evergladesträskens ogenomträngliga vildmark. När den idealistiske löjtnanten Lance Caldwell (Rock Hudson) stationeras vid Fort King, hamnar han mitt i en dödlig lojalitetskonflikt. Fortets hänsynslösa befälhavare är fast besluten att utrota ursprungsbefolkningen, medan seminolefolkets stolta ledare, Osceola (Anthony Quinn), råkar vara Caldwells nära barndomsvän.<br/><br/>När ett fredsförsök under vit flagg förvandlas till ett blodigt svek, anklagas Caldwell för mord och ställs inför krigsrätt. Klockan tickar mot hans avrättning, och hans enda hopp står till den sanning som kan stoppa ett helt krig.<br/><br/>Upplev Budd Boettichers klassiska och gripande westernäventyr om svek, mod och förbjuden vänskap - i en tid då ärlighet var det farligaste vapnet av alla.

Klassisk westernfilm från 1953 regisserad av Budd Boetticher med Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn och Richard Carlson.