Major Dundee (1965)

Directors

Sam Peckinpah

Cast

Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson, jr., Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Brock Peters

The story

During the American Civil War, Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee is relieved of his command for a tactical error at the Battle of Gettysburg and sent to head a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory. After a family of ranchers and a relief column of cavalry are massacred by Apache war chief Sierra Charriba, Dundee sends his scout Samuel Potts to locate Charriba and begins raising his own, unauthorized force. He attempts to recruit Confederate prisoners led by his former friend, Captain Ben Tyreen.

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