Vera Cruz (1954)

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Directed by

Robert Aldrich

Starring (View all)

Gary Cooper
Benjamin Trane

Burt Lancaster
Joe Erin

Denise Darcel
Countess Marie Duvarre

Cesar Romero
Marquis Henri de Labordere

Sara Montiel
Nina

George Macready
Emperor Maximilian

Jack Elam
Tex

Ernest Borgnine
Donnegan

Written by

James R. Webb
(screenplay)

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During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Release date: 25 December 1954
UPC: 027616859075

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"6.4. 2020 "Vera Cruz" tells about two adventurers of which another one is a man of principles and another one is a greedy but skilled gunman. Emperor Maximilian hires the two men to escort a countess to Vera Cruz during Reform War. "Vera Cruz" is a traditional western that was entirely filmed in Mexico which gives it certain kind of authenticity. Principles, honor, fragility of values, and unpredictability of human nature are the dominant themes in the film. Personal differences between the two"

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"Across a simultaneously beautiful and dangerous Mexican frontier gripped by political turmoil, Robert Aldrich found the ideal setting in which to place disillusioned outcasts. In the punchy Vera Cruz, the goal of transporting a countess (Denise Darcel) and her gold to the titular port city in the Gulf of Mexico sparks various shifts in alliances and perpetual double-crosses between American rejects like ex-Confederate soldier Ben Trane (Gary Cooper) and the sadistic Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster). Al"