Vera Cruz
"You're the first friend I ever had," grins flamboyant mercenary Burt Lancaster to lean, laconic Gary Cooper with a smile that suggests that he may be the last. They're a pair of Americans abroad looking to cash in on the Mexican revolution by selling their services to the highest bidder in this energetically cynical south-of-the-border Western. They meet cute, conning, robbing, and out-witting one another in a bit of one-upmanship that bonds the men in mutual admiration, and then team up to escort a royal convoy through revolutionary country. When they discover its secret stash of gold bullion, they revert to their old way, selling out anyone it takes to get the treasure for themselves, even each other. Played out as a seat-of-the-pants con game of shifting alliances and double crosses, this is a cheerfully ruthless tale that served as a veritable blueprint for the Italian spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Director Robert Aldrich has a real flair for turning rogues and opportunists into deviously riveting characters, and went on to work the same sort of magic on Kiss Me Deadly and The Dirty Dozen. The cast of character actors features Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Jack Elam in the gang, George Macready as Emperor Maximilian, and Henry Brandon as the martinet German captain Danette. --Sean Axmaker
Legendary screen icons Gary Cooper (High Noon) and Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry) teamup for a magnificent, action-packed western from director Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and screenwriters Roland Kibbee and James R. Webb. With sweeping vistas and larger-than-life heroics,it's a tale as bold and rugged as the characters it so brilliantly depicts. Cooper and Lancaster portray Benjamin Trane and Joe Erin, two daredevil mercenaries who journey to Mexico in search of adventureand cold hard cashduring the 1866 revolution. But they get more than they bargained for when the wealthy and beautiful Countess Duvarre (Denise Darcel) hires them to escort her (and a fortune in gold!) to Emperor Maximilian's fighting forces in Vera Cruz. The trail is fraught with danger, betrayal and murder...and when Ben is swept up in the revolutionaries' fervor, he and Joe find themselves at odds with the Mexican Armyand each other!
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29 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
JUST LIKE BEES TO HONEY, BEN, BEES TO HONEY
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Vera Cruz
A great western starring the great Gary Cooper & the versatile Burt Lancaster that takes place during the revolution of 1866. The film also has Denise Darcel as the female lead & Cesar Romero as a wealthy Marquis on the side of Maximilian. Robert...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
vera c ruz
I am not satisfied. You have shipped af film, that cannot be viewed on dvd maschines i Europe.
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 21, 2007 Type: User Review |
Is this a toothpaste commercial?
Yes, those big pearly white choppers prominently displayed in Burt Lancaster's frequent sarcastic smiles tend to dominate most scenes in this fast moving complicated film. All the twists and turns in this story set in a Mexico in political...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 18, 2007 Type: User Review |
Lancaster chews chicken
In this movie, Burt Lancaster not only chews the scenery, he chews chicken.
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 10, 2006 Type: User Review |
Cooper and Lancaster sporting a disarming but treacherous grin throughout...
The middle fifties saw the production of an astonishing variety of Westerns of high quality... Robert Aldrich followed "Apache" in 1954 with a cheerful, action-packed adventure called "Vera Cruz," which starred Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 28, 2006 Type: User Review |
Viva La Vera Cruz!
Vera Cruz is one of those Westerns that you can sit and enjoy over and over again. The teaming of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, two great Western movie stars, was inspired, and was a great contrast as Lancaster was rising to his prime, and...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 22, 2006 Type: User Review |
Vera Cruz 1954
Legendary screen icons Gary Cooper (1901-1961) and Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) team up for a magnificent , action- packed Western from Director Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) and screenwriter Roland Kibbee (1914-1984) and James E. Webb (1910-1974)....
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 14, 2006 Type: User Review |
Major Influence on the Western Genre
"Vera Cruz" is a sprawling, cynical, and sadistic western; set and filmed in Mexico; and full of confused political messages and moral ambiguity. If that sounds like "The Wild Bunch", it should, because 1954's "Vera Cruz" was in effect a dry run...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 25, 2005 Type: User Review |
Vera Cruz
This is probably the best adventure movie that has ever been made.Burt Lancaster & Gary Cooper-could not get any better.David Burns.
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5.00/5 |
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