Escape from Fort Bravo Page #3

Synopsis: A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business, capable of capturing every escaped convict under his supervision. However, when he falls in love with a visiting woman some of the prisoners seize the advantage and try to escape while he is in a more "mellow" mood.
Genre: Western
Director(s): John Sturges
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
6.7
PASSED
Year:
1953
99 min
95 Views


- Go on.

- Don't worry.

He'll be all right.

We weren't expecting you

so soon, Carla.

I took an earlier stage.

If you'll excuse me, Captain Roper

will escort you to my quarters.

We'll talk later at dinner tonight.

Perhaps the captain will join us.

- Roper?

- A pleasure, sir.

- I'll take the rest of your report then.

- Yes, sir.

You've come at a bad time, I'm afraid.

I'm not.

Carla's a beautiful girl, isn't she?

Yes, she is.

Times like these, I wish she hadn't come.

I was thinking

of sending Alice to visit her.

If we've got an Indian war on our hands,

do you think the rebs would fight with us?

For their lives, they will.

Only if we win,

we might belong to them.

It'd still be better than the Indians.

For me, it would be the same thing.

Coffee. Hot, fresh and strong.

Good.

Will the captain be

at the dance tomorrow night?

Have you ever been to a dance, captain?

Once I went to a war dance

with an Indian.

A young squaw?

No. An old chief, a Rio Verdes.

Prisoner?

Oh, they roughed me up a bit.

Didn't hurt.

Just made me about five years older.

Oh, I prefer to have a drink from that bottle

you keep hidden behind your gun cabinet.

Do you know everything

that goes on in this fort?

I have to.

I'm the eyes in the back of your head.

Thank you.

Where are your quarters, captain?

At the far end of the post.

May I walk you home?

What part of Texas are you from?

I must go there some time.

You'd enjoy it.

I've never been in a fort before.

Is it safe to walk around at night?

- No.

- I mean, with you.

You'll burn yourself.

I asked you a question.

May I walk you home?

Aren't the prisoners guarded?

Where would they go

without arms and horses?

Over that hill, there are four more hills,

and then miles of desert to Mescal.

Nothing much in Mescal.

At least for a rebel.

Do any of them ever try to escape?

Sometimes.

What happens?

I find them.

You're the man who finds everybody.

Well, I had to ask you

if I could walk you home.

Do I have to ask you to take me

to the dance tomorrow night?

Yes. I'd like to hear you ask me.

Perhaps I'm moving too fast.

Perhaps you are and perhaps you're not.

I'll pick you up at 7.

Fine.

Oh, I should tell you, captain,

I can be a little trouble.

I believe that.

But then you look big enough

to handle a little trouble.

Good night.

Good night.

I see some of the prisoners are here.

It's the colonel's idea.

Esprit de corps. One big happy family.

You don't seem

to think much of the idea.

I don't do the thinking.

- Where's Alice?

- She took punch and cakes to Beecher.

- Oh, how's he feeling?

- He's all right.

He could get up now, but he likes

the attention he's getting from Alice.

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