
Ramrod
1947


“A handful of heroes on a powder-keg mountain !”
12 votes
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Director
William Cameron MenziesWriters
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English
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**_A suicidal Confederate mission to stop Sherman’s supply line_** This is a surprisingly good Civil War movie starring James Craig, Barbara Payton and Guy Madison, shot eight years before the similar John Ford/John Wayne “The Horse Soldiers.” While the geography is disingenuous, being shot in central California east of Stockton, the widespan topography isn’t the focus, but rather the characters and their immediate background, such as the antebellum manor, the trees and the caves. You can only see the distant geography in the train sequence, which is relatively late in the film. Although…
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