The Last Frontier

1955
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1h 38m

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Victor Mature in The Last Frontier (1955)

Classical Western Costume Drama Drama Romance Western

A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable S... Read allA trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.

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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
(uncredited)

John Cason

First Sentry
(uncredited)

Manuel Dondé

Red Cloud
(uncredited)

Bill Hale

Trooper
(uncredited)

Mickey Kuhn

Luke, Sentry
(uncredited)

Regis Parton

Sentry
(uncredited)

Jack Pennick

Sergeant
(uncredited)

Allen Pinson

Sentry
(uncredited)

Robert St. Angelo

Sentry
(uncredited)

William Traylor

Soldier
(uncredited)

Director
- Anthony Mann
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Trivia
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.

Goofs
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).

Quotes
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!

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

Soundtracks
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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7/10

there's lots to like about this western

this is another good western,which i enjoyed.it's not an epic or anything,but it is good for what it is.it' about 3 fur trappers,led by a men named Jed,who is crude and uncivilized.Jed and his two friends find themselves as scouts for a fort that is the only thing standing between them and and Indian band,who resent the Americans on their land,and want to take it back.that's the gist of the story.what follows is action,excitement,even a bit of humour,and forbidden romance.one of Jed's friends,Gus,reminded me a lot of the character Quint(played by Robert Shaw)in the movie Jaws.they both have that crusty,gruff demeanor.anyway,if you're a western fan,you should find lots to like about this particular entry.i think it deserves a 7/10