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...movie starts in a Northern prisoner-of-war camp where a Union captain (Cornel Wilde) is recruiting captured Confederate cavalrymen to serve against the Indians on the Western frontier. A Southern colonel (Joseph Cotten) and the remnants of his troop sign up. Arriving at the frontier post of Fort Thorn, they not only find themselves surrounded by Kiowas and Apaches, but are tempted to treason by undercover Confederate agents. They are also badgered by the fort's Rebel-hating commanding officer (Jeff Chandler), who was disabled at Bull Run, lost his brother at Chancellorsville, and has a lively interest...
...Cotten and his men decide to desert and go to Texas and the Confederacy, but they have a change of heart when the Kiowas, infuriated because Chandler has executed their chief's son, storm the fort. With the garrison about to fall, the Indians indicate that they will settle for Chandler. He marches alone into their encampment to what-judging from his screams-must be a gaudy death...
...weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...story takes us back to the any-man's-land of Australia at the turn of the last century. In the course of eloping with the stable boy (Joseph Cotten) at her English home, Ingrid Bergman had shot one of her brothers who objected to her marrying beneath herself. Cotten took the blame and was promptly shipped off to Australia as a galley slave. Ingrid went there and, working in a pursuit which she did not care to elaborate upon, finally earned enough to buy his freedom...
Since Australia was a place where no questions were asked, Cotten soon became a financial success, but failed to gain social recognition because of his rough manners. This combination of circumstances caused Ingrid Bergman to be very despondent and constantly drunk, until the "other man" played by Michael Wilding, came along. After helping her back to sanity, making a pass, and surviving an accidental bullet in his belly, Wilding went back to England, leaving the couple to relative happiness as they walked into the sunset...