Vera Cruz (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 12, 2021
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gary Cooper & Burt Lancaster | |
Performer: | Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Sara Montiel, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine & Morris Ankrum | |
Directed by | Robert Aldrich | |
Edited by | Alan Crosland, Jr. | |
Screenwriting by | Roland Kibbee & James R. Webb | |
Composition by | Hugo Friedhofer | |
Cinematography by | Ernest Laszlo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Played out as a seat-of-the-pants con game of shifting alliances and double crosses, it's a cheerfully ruthless tale that served as a veritable blueprint for the mercenary brand of Italian spaghetti westerns of the 1960s.
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It's amazing that Aldrich found time to be simultaneously playful, thoughtful, and angry as well as compact and economical, cramming all this stuff into a fast-moving, action-packed 94 minutes.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 7/10 --
Vera Cruz is one of the better Westerns that no one remembers . . . .
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Movie Metropolis
Behind Aldrich's humoristic veneer and lush eye lurks a despairing absurdist
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CinePassion
...A lark of a Western...with a fabulous cast...
USA Today
Rating: B- --
If you like your westerns with a salsa topping, this one should be spicy enough.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Rousing western set South of Border with Cooper and Lancaster in blazing style.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
In Robert Aldrich's action-packed Western, Benjamin Trane (Gary Cooper) and Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) are American soldiers of fortune hired by the Austrian ruler of Mexico, Maximilian, to safeguard a royal convoy transporting gold and an Austrian countess to the port of Vera Cruz. Things get complicated for the mercenaries when they begin to mistrust one another--and when Erin starts to fall for the countess. Aldrich throws a bit of European exotica into the standard oater formula of guns, grit, and gold to create a striking, memorable film that showcases the acting talents of Cooper and Lancaster, two monumental Hollywood stars. The director also sprinkles some trenchant historical commentary into his powder-keg narrative by showing the Hapsburg empire's bumbling attempt to annex Mexico.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,381
- UPC: 738329255848
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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