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When friends ask me to name my favourite 5 films this is the one that they have never heard of.To my mind it is the most accomplished western that has ever been made(although soldier blue comes a good second, It tells the story of an apache(ulzana)and his gang and their bid for freedom from the constraints of a reservation with little food and very little hope. Burt Lancaster plays an army scout sent to track the renegades alongside a platoon of indian hating soldiers and their inept and ill equipped leader. Although the film follows a predictable course it is the tension and under glorified violence that sets this apart from others of the genre.I found that I had sympathy for most of the main characters at different points in the film but ultimately I felt like Lancaster the futility of it all. Please see this film at least then you will know all my top 5.
score 10/10
ULZANA 7 September 1999
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