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So much average

Sadly Over-hyped

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I love Unconquered, unsophisticated as it may be. It's Saturday Afternoon at the Bijou time, courtesy of the over-the-top presentation of Cecil B. DeMille. The film is rich in atmosphere and with an eye for detail in capturing colonial America, no matter how ludicrous the situations may be at times. Yes, the casting of Boris Karloff as an Indian chief is a camp enthusiast's delight but, if taken in the right spirit, only adds to the fun.The film is highlighted by a action set piece involving an escape from the Indians and a plunge over a waterfalls. No credibility whatsoever as far as the real world is concerned. But who says this is the real world? It's the movies where the impossible can happen and we are along for the ride which includes the wonderful Technicolor enhancing of its many visual pleasures.I can't recommend Unconquered enough for those adventure seekers fully prepared to suspend their sense of disbelief in advance, and it may be the only film ever made about Pontiac's Rebellion, although, Pontiac is never mentioned.

This is my favourite Cecil B DeMille picture. I'm not really a huge fan of his films, however this one dealt with a slice of history I find fascinating.The story is set in Britain's American colonies during the Pontiac Rebellion of 1763. Just before the conflict commences, Captain Chris Holden (Gary Cooper) buys indentured convict, Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard). At first it is to thwart adversary Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva), but later they fall in love. Da Silva has the showiest role as the frontier equivalent of the head of organised crime - he supplies the Indians with weapons and ignites the war.Some old movies gained a touch of movie magic because of the slightly unreal look of the sets, especially when shot in moody B/W, but not Cecil's movies, they just looked fake. Lighting outdoors for the technicolour cameras was a problem for sure, but one movie, "Northwest Passage" made a few years earlier and set around the same period managed to do it brilliantly. The problem with locking the film away on the sound stage is that this was a time in American history that is all about the outdoors; the unexplored wilderness with the small population of colonists set against the vastness of the mountains and forests. Michael Mann caught it in "The Last of the Mohicans", but DeMille's movie is very stagebound.However Cooper and Goddard hold the thing together. Paulette Goddard could wear period costumes beautifully, and she played feisty well. Cooper was the epitome of the confident, quietly spoken man of action although he didn't change gears much from film to film.Real life characters are threaded throughout the story: George Washington and even Guyasuta, the Indian Chief played by Boris Karloff. However Cecil didn't avoid too many stereotypes in his depiction of the Indians, in fact he probably invented some of them.Paulette Goddard plays an Englishwoman sentenced to transportation to the American colonies and virtual slavery. Before the War of Independence, 40,000 convicts were sent. After losing America, Britain transported its convicts to create colonies in Australia, eventually 150,000 were sent over about 60 years. Possibly not many Americans or Australians are aware of that connection.There haven't been many films about this era other than various versions of "The Last of the Mohicans". "Unconquered" works despite its cheesiness mainly because of the actors and the colourful period in which it is set.

This movie is kind of long, just over 2 hours, but there is a lot of action and twists in the poor life of a slave named Anna Hale. She was sent to America as a bond servant instead of hanged in Britain. Sold to one owner, she ends up in the clutches of another evil character who provides arms to the Indians and stirs them up to turn against the colonists. She is in and out of scraps for the entire movie.There is only one beef I had. When Gary Cooper crawls out the a river all of a sudden he had a gun, with dry powder at that. This is the only mistake I could see in and otherwise good picture. As I said, there's a lot of action.

Cecil B. DeMille directed a film with a cast of all time giants of the movie screen, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Boris Karloff, Ward Bond and even Katherine DeMille. However, these great actors were not able to make this film a success because of the screenplay by Charles Bennett. In 1763 in colonial America, Martin Garth(howard Da Silva), a trader, secretly trades guns to the Indians in order to stop the westward movement of settlers, Garth tries to purchase young Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard), a British servant for his own interests, but a Virginia Capt. Christopher Holden(Gary Cooper), outbids the trader and then frees her. Garth encourages an Indian rebellion on Fort Pitt led by Chief Guyasuta (Boris Karloff). This picture gets very boring and pointless. Karloff acts perfectly as an Indian and you can hardly hear his lisp or British accent!