Two Flags West

1950
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1h 32m

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6.7/10

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Forced by circumstances, Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.

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Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.

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Joseph Cotten

Col. Clay Tucker

Linda Darnell

Elena Kenniston

Jeff Chandler

Maj. Henry Kenniston

Cornel Wilde

Capt. Mark Bradford

Dale Robertson

Jay C. Flippen

Sgt. Terrance Duey

Noah Beery Jr.

Cy Davis
(as Noah Beery)

Harry von Zell

Ephraim Strong

Johnny Sands

Lt. Adams
(as John Sands)

Arthur Hunnicutt

Sgt. Pickens

Robert Adler

Hank
(uncredited)

Stanley Andrews

Col. Hoffman
(uncredited)

Jose Baca

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Marjorie Bennett

Mrs. Simpkins
(uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Confederate Soldier
(uncredited)

Bertha Brennan

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Buck Bucko

Confederate Soldier
(uncredited)

Bill Burch

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

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- Robert Wise
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Trivia
Jeff Chandler, who was in the very early stages of his career, admired Joseph Cotten so much that he would show up to watch the veteran actor work even when he was not scheduled to be there.

Goofs
The film is set in 1864 but the pistol a trooper uses to nail up a picture appears to be a Remington model 1875 Single Action Army Revolver using metallic cartridges which wasn't introduced until 1875. He should have carried either a Colt 1860 Cap & Ball revolver or a Remington 1858 Cap & Ball revolver.

Connections
Featured in The Making of 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' (2008)

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Dixie
(uncredited)
Written by Daniel Decatur Emmett

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7/10

Troops Stretched Thin

Two Flags West begins with Confederate colonel Joseph Cotten given an offer to have his men get paroled from prison if they'll serve in the union army out west where the troops are stretched pretty thin. Over some objections he takes the offer from Captain Cornel Wilde.

Wilde takes Cotten and his men to Fort Thorn in the Southwest which is commanded by rebel hating and Indian hating Jeff Chandler. There's a good reason why this guy is in a backwater command as you'll see as the film unfolds. In addition there's Linda Darnell, wife of Chandler's late brother who was killed in the Civil War and who all three guys have their eyes on. But Chandler scares Darnell as well he should.

It was interesting to see Chandler whose career role was Cochise playing an Indian hater. But he does successfully put over the character. His Indian hating causes a lot of tragedy before the film is over.

Two Flags West is a brooding kind of western that's not for the squeamish. It's an exceptionally violent film that I'm not sure how it got through the Code. It's one of Jeff Chandler's best early roles, too bad Universal didn't cast him in more films like Two Flags West.