Movie
Major Dundee
Overview
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Details
- Release date
- 1965-03-15
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Western, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Jerry Bresler Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Major Amos Charles Dundee
- Richard Harris as Captain Benjamin Tyreen
- Jim Hutton as Lieutenant Graham
- James Coburn as Samuel Potts
- Michael Anderson Jr. as Trooper Tim Ryan
- Senta Berger as Teresa Santiago
- Mario Adorf as Sergeant Gomez
- Brock Peters as Aesop
- Warren Oates as O.W. Hadley
- Ben Johnson as Sergeant Chillum
- R.G. Armstrong as Reverend Dahlstrom
- L.Q. Jones as Arthur Hadley
Crew
- Sam Peckinpah - Director
- Sam Peckinpah - Screenplay
- Oscar Saul - Screenplay
- Harry Julian Fink - Screenplay
- Harry Julian Fink - Story
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