Column South

1953
Approved
1h 24m

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6,3/10

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Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, and Gregg Palmer in Column South (1953)

Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

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Classical Western Western

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBefore the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

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758

MA NOTE

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Gaffes
In the cavalry train that leaves Fort Union for Fort Stanton there is a wagon transporting Marcy Whitlock that is marked with the letters US MD and a red cross. The red cross symbol was created in Geneva in 1863 and not in use with the US forces in 1861.

Citations
Brig. Gen. B.N. Stone: I was told you were a man of intense loyalty... deeply devoted to the cause.
Capt. Lee Whitlock: The cause? Causes may start wars, but they don't win them!

Générique farfelu
Opening credits prologue: The breach between the north and south was rapidly widening. A grim spectre of civil war hovered over the land. It was a time of crisis... A time for choosing sides.

Bandes originales
John Brown's Body
(uncredited)
Music by William Steffe

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6/10

Murphy stands out in OK Cavalry vs Indians Western

I do not know much about Director Frederick de Cordova but his oversight of COLUMN SOUTH failed to impress me: pedestrian cinematography, plot with a McGuffin (a letter from the fort commander apparently meant to remove the US forces from the fort and allow Navajo Indians to take over... uh?!) and a cast of then unknowns like Dennis Weaver as Menguito, the Navajo leader, and a rather plain-faced Joan Evans.

Thankfully, Audie Murphy saves the film with yet another spirited performance: while kissing Evans, he hears a snake (sounded like a rattlesnake but turned out to be some black reptile that looked suspiciously rubbery), kills it with with a handbag (!), out of which drops the McGuffin letter given by the fort commander. Murphy then has an inkling that that letter might carry dangerous tidings but he does not hesitate to risk court martial by opening and reading it, thereby confirming his worst suspicions.

At that point Murphy's resourcefulness emerges as he goes into the fort's arms depot tunnel, attaches fuses to dynamite and proceeds to blow the occupying Indians to bits - he really puts his shoulder to the wheel and thinks faster than anyone else!

Once the dust settled on the happy ending, I wondered whether I'll remember this film for any length of time (doubt it). 6/10.