Posts Tagged ‘cavalry’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Little Big Man (1970)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Faye Dunaway | Chief Dan George | Martin Balsam | Richard Mulligan | Jeff Corey | Aimée Eccles | Kelly Jean Peters | Carole Androsky | Robert Little Star | Cal Bellini | Ruben Moreno | Steve Shemayne | William Hickey | James Anderson
Directors: Arthur Penn
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Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.

Hondo (1953)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | Geraldine Page | Ward Bond | Michael Pate | James Arness | Rodolfo Acosta | Leo Gordon | Tom Irish | Lee Aaker | Paul Fix | Rayford Barnes | Frank McGrath | Morry Ogden | Chuck Roberson
Directors: John Farrow
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Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Lane has a run-in with Angie’s reprobate husband and is forced to kill him, not knowing who he is. Vittorio captures Lane and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that Lane is her husband, unaware that Lane has killed her real husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apache, Lane reluctantly goes along with the lie, though he knows the truth must eventually come out, to Vittorio and to Angie, both.

Geronimo (1962)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Connors | Kamala Devi | Pat Conway | Armando Silvestre | Adam West | Lawrence Dobkin | John Anderson | Enid Jaynes | Ross Martin | Denver Pyle | Nancy Rodman | Amanda Ames | Eduardo Noriega | Claudio Brook | Joe Higgins
Directors: Arnold Laven
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.

Alexander (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Jared Leto | Anthony Hopkins | Colin Farrell | David Bedella | Jessie Kamm | Angelina Jolie | Val Kilmer | Fiona O'Shaughnessy | Connor Paolo | Patrick Carroll | Brian Blessed | Peter Williamson | Morgan Christopher Ferris | Robert Earley | Aleczander Gordon | Christopher Plummer | Gary Stretch
Directors: Oliver Stone
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Dysart | ZZ Top | Michael J. Fox | Christopher Lloyd | Mary Steenburgen | Thomas F. Wilson | Lea Thompson | Elisabeth Shue | James Tolkan | Matt Clark | Dub Taylor | Harry Carey Jr. | Pat Buttram | Christopher Wynne | Sean Gregory Sullivan | Mike Watson | Marc McClure
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The movie continues where the last one with Marty stuck in 1955. But Doc Brown sent him a letter from 1855 through Western Union, that told him that after the Delorean was struck by lightning he was sent to 1855 and was unable to repair it, but has managed to bury it somewhere, where Marty can get to it in 1955 and hopefully the younger version of himself can repair it so he can drive it back to 1985 and then destroy it. But after finding it, Marty discovers that shortly after sending the letter Doc would be shot by an outlaw, Mad Dog Tannen. Marty then goes back to 1885 to save him and meets his ancestors. After finding the Doc, they were about to leave when Marty told the Doc that upon arriving the Delorean’s gas tank was punctured, so they don’t have any gasoline to run the car, which means they have to find some way to get the car to 88 mph. They decide to try pushing it with a locomotive. And things are fine except for the fact that Tannen, who had it in for Doc, now has it for Marty and has challenged him to gunfight on the day that they are going to leave, and Doc is smitten with Clara Clayton, the new school teacher.

Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain | West Germany
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Marianne Koch | Gian Maria Volonté | Wolfgang Lukschy | Sieghardt Rupp | Joseph Egger | Antonio Prieto | José Calvo | Margarita Lozano | Daniel Martín | Benito Stefanelli | Mario Brega | Bruno Carotenuto | Aldo Sambrell
Directors: Sergio Leone
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An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Ian McKellen | Elijah Wood | Noel Appleby | Alexandra Astin | Sean Astin | David Aston | John Bach | Sean Bean | Cate Blanchett | Orlando Bloom | Billy Boyd | Sadwyn Brophy | Alistair Browning | Marton Csokas | Richard Edge | Jason Fitch | Bernard Hill
Directors: Peter Jackson
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Liv Tyler | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Cate Blanchett | John Rhys-Davies | Bernard Hill | Christopher Lee | Billy Boyd | Dominic Monaghan | Orlando Bloom | Hugo Weaving | Miranda Otto | David Wenham
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

Braveheart (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | James Robinson | Sandy Nelson | James Cosmo | Sean Lawlor | Alan Tall | Andrew Weir | Gerda Stevenson | Ralph Riach | Mhairi Calvey | Brian Cox | Patrick McGoohan | Peter Hanly | Sophie Marceau
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William’s father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city’s and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace’s death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland’s freedom.