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The Last Frontier ()

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A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.
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Jed Cooper
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Captain Glenn Riordan
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Col. Frank Marston
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Gus
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Corinna Marston
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Captain Phil Clarke
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Sergeant Major Decker
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Mungo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Guillermo Calles ...
Spotted Elk (uncredited)
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First Sentry (uncredited)
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Red Cloud (uncredited)
Bill Hale ...
Trooper (uncredited)
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Luke, Sentry (uncredited)
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Sentry (uncredited)
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Sergeant (uncredited)
Allen Pinson ...
Sentry (uncredited)
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Sentry (uncredited)
William Traylor ...
Soldier (uncredited)
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Lieutenant Benton (uncredited)
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Sentry (uncredited)

Directed by

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Anthony Mann

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Philip Yordan ... (screenplay) &
Russell S. Hughes ... (screenplay)
 
Richard Emery Roberts ... (novel "The Gilded Rooster")

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William Fadiman ... producer

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Leigh Harline

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William C. Mellor ... director of photography (as William Mellor)

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Al Clark

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Henri Jaffa ... color consultant: Technicolor

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Robert Peterson

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James Crowe

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Clay Campbell ... makeup artist
Helen Hunt ... hair stylist

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Sam Nelson ... assistant director

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John P. Livadary ... recording supervisor (as John Livadary)
Jean G. Valentino ... sound (uncredited)

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John Cason ... stunts (uncredited)
Regis Parton ... stunts (uncredited)
Terry Wilson ... stunts (uncredited)

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Arthur Morton ... orchestrations
Morris Stoloff ... conductor
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Plot Summary

Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort, manned chiefly by untrained rookie soldiers. Jed, flirting with the idea of leading a more settled life, decides he needs a woman to start the process, and selects Corinna Marston, the beautiful young wife of Colonel Marston, commander of the next fort down the line. Marston arrives and announces to commanding officer Captain Riordan that he has lost his fort and most of his men to an Indian attack and that he, as ranking officer, is assuming command. Riordan, a young, but sensible officer, is outraged when he learns that Marston, posted out west for having lost his 1500-man command during a Civil War battle, has ordered the entire fort's complement, totally unprepared for combat and outnumbered, to march out against experienced Indian warriors. Written by Doug Sederberg

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Taglines The men, the women, the wilderness of America's most exciting days ! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Savage Wilderness (United States)
  • The Gilded Rooster (United States)
  • La charge des tuniques bleues (France)
  • La última frontera (Spain)
  • Desierto salvaje (Spain)
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  • 98 min
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Trivia James Whitmore plays Victor Mature's father figure and helped raise him in the film, despite the fact that Mature was actually eight years older than Whitmore. See more »
Goofs The Colonel takes over the Captain's command without any orders after he loses his own. The Captain even mentions it once, but is casually dismissed by the Colonel since he is the Captain's superior officer. It has never worked that way in the Army, a superior officer cannot take over a junior officer's command without official orders, and if he tries to, the junior officer and his staff have every right to place the superior officer under arrest, especially if he endangers the entire command (and given that the Colonel has twice lost entire commands, this is not an unrealistic danger). See more »
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Quotes Gus: Sorry about the Colonel back.
Jed Cooper: I ain't glad.
Gus: Jed, you did right. And I'm proud of you. Makes me feel as though I didn't bring you up too bad after all.
Jed Cooper: I didn't do it for you, Gus.
Gus: She made you, didn't she? Well, most likely she wanted him dead just as much as you do, but only she couldn't. That 'll be the Christian in her. That's the part of your education that's most been sadly lacking. You ain't got no Christian in you.
Jed Cooper: I ain't?
Gus: No. There's two kinds of love, Jed. The way you love and the way a christian does. She can't be had your way.
Jed Cooper: How the Christians do?
Gus: Well, they begin with... you don't pine for another man's wife.
Jed Cooper: Never?
Gus: Well, maybe sometimes. But a good Christian fights it off.
Jed Cooper: How?
Gus: Well, he gots himself another woman.
Jed Cooper: You mean a Christian loves a woman he don't like, because he can't get the one he wants? I call that real sneaky!
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