Major Dundee

Major Dundee

1965 · 125 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.6 (139 votes)
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · Starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger · Music Daniele Amfitheatrof
Western

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

VIBE

A sprawling, morally ambiguous Western that feels as vast and unforgiving as its landscape. It's a character study of flawed men on a desperate mission, steeped in the dust and disillusionment of the frontier.

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