Desierto salvaje

Título original: The Last Frontier

1955
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1h 38min

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Victor Mature in Desierto salvaje (1955)

Classical Western Costume Drama Drama Romance Western

Jed Cooper se registra como explorador del fuerte del ejército de Oregón.Jed Cooper se registra como explorador del fuerte del ejército de Oregón.Jed Cooper se registra como explorador del fuerte del ejército de Oregón.

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Victor Mature

Jed Cooper

Guy Madison

Captain Glenn Riordan

Robert Preston

Col. Frank Marston

James Whitmore

Anne Bancroft

Corinna Marston

Russell Collins

Captain Phil Clarke

Peter Whitney

Sergeant Major Decker

Pat Hogan

Mungo

Guillermo Calles

Spotted Elk
(sin acreditar)

John Cason

First Sentry
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Manuel Dondé

Red Cloud
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Bill Hale

Trooper
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Mickey Kuhn

Luke, Sentry
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Regis Parton

Sentry
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Jack Pennick

Sergeant
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Allen Pinson

Sentry
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Robert St. Angelo

Sentry
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William Traylor

Soldier
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Curiosidades
James Whitmore plays Victor Mature's father figure and helped raise him in the film, despite the fact that Mature was actually eight years older than Whitmore.

Pifias
The Colonel takes over the Captain's command without any orders after he loses his own. The Captain even mentions it once, but is casually dismissed by the Colonel since he is the Captain's superior officer. It has never worked that way in the Army, a superior officer cannot take over a junior officer's command without official orders, and if he tries to, the junior officer and his staff have every right to place the superior officer under arrest, especially if he endangers the entire command (and given that the Colonel has twice lost entire commands, this is not an unrealistic danger).

Citas
Gus: Sorry about the Colonel back.
Jed Cooper: I ain't glad.
Gus: Jed, you did right. And I'm proud of you. Makes me feel as though I didn't bring you up too bad after all.
Jed Cooper: I didn't do it for you, Gus.
Gus: She made you, didn't she? Well, most likely she wanted him dead just as much as you do, but only she couldn't. That 'll be the Christian in her. That's the part of your education that's most been sadly lacking. You ain't got no Christian in you.
Jed Cooper: I ain't?
Gus: No. There's two kinds of love, Jed. The way you love and the way a christian does. She can't be had your way.
Jed Cooper: How the Christians do?
Gus: Well, they begin with... you don't pine for another man's wife.
Jed Cooper: Never?
Gus: Well, maybe sometimes. But a good Christian fights it off.
Jed Cooper: How?
Gus: Well, he gots himself another woman.
Jed Cooper: You mean a Christian loves a woman he don't like, because he can't get the one he wants? I call that real sneaky!

Conexiones
Referenced in Apprenticing a Master - Neil Sinyard on the Tin Star (2024)

Banda sonora
The Last Frontier
by Lester Lee - Ned Washington
Sung by Rusty Draper over the opening credits
Reprised by Rusty Draper at the end

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6/10

Drama set in the west that makes some sharp observations

More of an army drama set in the West vs. a Western this has solid direction and some good actors. Victor Mature is hammy but Guy Madison gives a stronger performance here than was usual for him, relaxed and assured. Robert Preston is the cruel commander who is revealed early on as a soulless martinet. He is married to a soft and startlingly blond Anne Bancroft who is good but whose role is incidental. The film makes some veiled and some pointed references to early pioneers disregard for the ways not only of the Indians but of trappers and others who had easily coexisted with them destroying their way of life as valueless merely because it was not the settlers way.