Escape from Fort Bravo

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Escape from Fort Bravo is a 1953 American Western film set in a Civil War-era prison camp, noted for its tense standoff between Union jailers, Confederate prisoners, and Apache warriors.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
Western film
film
aspectRatio 1.37:1
basedOn original screenplay
character Captain John Marsh NERFINISHED
Captain Roper NERFINISHED
Carla Forester NERFINISHED
Lieutenant Beecher NERFINISHED
Sergeant Campbell NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Robert Surtees NERFINISHED
colorProcess Ansco Color NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director John Sturges NERFINISHED
distributedInFormat theatrical film
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy George Boemler NERFINISHED
era Classical Hollywood cinema NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Death Valley, California NERFINISHED
Gallup, New Mexico NERFINISHED
genre Western
war film
hasTheme duty versus compassion
loyalty and betrayal
survival under siege
language English
mpaaRating Passed
musicBy Jeff Alexander NERFINISHED
notableFor tense standoff between Union jailers, Confederate prisoners, and Apache warriors
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A strict Union officer oversees a Civil War prison camp and becomes involved with a woman whose visit masks a Confederate escape plan, leading to a deadly confrontation with Apache warriors.
producer Nicholas Nayfack NERFINISHED
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
releaseDate 1953-12-04
releaseYear 1953
runtimeMinutes 99
screenwriter Frank Fenton NERFINISHED
setDuring American Civil War NERFINISHED
settingLocation Union prison camp in the American Southwest
stars Eleanor Parker NERFINISHED
John Forsythe NERFINISHED
Polly Bergen NERFINISHED
Richard Anderson NERFINISHED
William Campbell NERFINISHED
William Demarest NERFINISHED
William Holden NERFINISHED
storyBy Michael Pate NERFINISHED
Phillip Rock NERFINISHED
subgenre Civil War Western

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John Sturges directed Escape from Fort Bravo