Two Flags West (1950)
Two Flags West (1950)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Joseph Cotten
Col. Clay Tucker
Linda Darnell
Elena Kenniston
Jeff Chandler
Maj. Henry Kenniston
Cornel Wilde
Capt. Mark Bradford
Dale Robertson
Lem
Jay C. Flippen
Sgt. Terrance Duey
Noah Beery Jr.
Cy Davis (as Noah Beery)
Johnny Sands
Lt. Adams (as John Sands)
Arthur Hunnicutt
Sgt. Pickens
Harry von Zell
Ephraim Strong
Robert Adler
Hank (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Col. Hoffman (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Mrs. Simpkins (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
Harry Carter
Lt. Reynolds (uncredited)
Aurora Castillón
Maria (uncredited)
Sally Corner
Mrs. Magowan (uncredited)
Don Garner
Ash Cooper (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Rev. Simpkins (uncredited)
Roy Gordon
Capt. Stanley (uncredited)
Lee MacGregor
Cal (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
Dr. Magowan (uncredited)
George K. Hundley
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Charity Holt
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Fred Holm
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
William McCarter
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Don Nevitt
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Ferguson Pollycutt
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Ed Pulliam
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Sam Tafoya
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Brinton Turkles
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Hank Potts
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Casey Robinson
Producer / Screenplay
Robert Wise
Director
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Louis R. Loeffler
Editor
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Frank S. Nugent
Story
Curtis Kenyon
Story
Alfred Newman
Music Director
Media.
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Two Flags West is a 1950 Western drama set during the American Civil War, directed by Robert Wise and starring Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Linda Darnell, and Cornel Wilde. The opening credits contain the following statement:
On December 8th, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a Special Proclamation, whereby Confederate Prisoners of War might gain their freedom, provided they would join the Union Army to defend the frontier West against the Indians.
Based on the historical service of "Galvanized Yankees", the film tells the story of a company of imprisoned Confederate Army cavalry troopers given such amnesty. The company of Georgia veterans journeys to a remote New Mexico post commanded by an embittered, Southerner-hating major who expects them to desert at the first opportunity. The fulfilment of that expectation is challenged by an attack on the fort itself by Kiowa.
Two Flags West was one of a wave of Civil War reconciliation-themed Westerns in the 1950s, in which soldiers from North and South combine against a common foe: it included Rocky Mountain (1950), The Last Outpost (1951), Escape from Fort Bravo (1953), and Revolt at Fort Laramie
(1957).