Unconquered (Universal Cinema Classics)

Buy This Item Unconquered (Universal Cinema Classics) by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $13.99  on 11-28-2008     I love these big, improbable, schmaltzy Cecil B DeMille spectaculars. He made them in BW or in color for almost every imaginable historical period from Biblical times through era of the emerging USAwith plotlines and characters that were almost interchangable, nothwithstanding the eraand everyone of them is about as entertaing a 2-3 hours as you could ask for. <br /> <br />Unconquered is a particularly entertaining entry in his oeuvre. It covers a period not often visited by Hollywood, pre-Revolutionary War America, and is loaded with a colorful cast of characters played by actors famous (Gary Cooper, Boris Karloff) and familiar but not so famous (Cecil Kellaway, Henry Wilcoxon, Mike Mazurki and the ever oily and improbable main villain, Howard de Silva). Best of all, Paulette Goddard, one of the most beautiful women ever to walk onto a movie set, and she is never lovelier than here. <br /> <br />You get all these great and near great actors, DeMille's always breathtaking color photography and an interesting and exciting story. <br /> <br />The characters are, of course, complretely stereotyped and the ending never in doubt, but with DeMille, that's never the pointit's the journey, not the arrival. <br /> <br />Ready when you are CB!!! Reader Reviews I am guessing that the reviewer that didn't like this movie is pretty young or doesn't enjoy films from this golden era of Hollywood ( no offense intended ). Peronally, I love movies, especially the ones from the 30's and 40's when the studio system was in full swing. This movie has one of the great directors of all time C.B. De Mille and and some of the Great screen personalities of all time. Action, adventure, patriotism, a great story, a great director, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard AND Boris Karloff as the indian villan .... a great movie..... what more could you ask for ?

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