Vera Cruz (Blu-ray)

The Giants Battle In The Biggest Spectacle Of Them All!
Vera Cruz (Blu-ray)
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Vera Cruz (Blu-ray) for $26.70

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 7, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1954
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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Entertainment Reviews:

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User Ratings: 2,071
Rating: 7/10 -- Vera Cruz is one of the better Westerns that no one remembers . . . . Full Review
Movie Metropolis
May 4, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Rousing western set South of Border with Cooper and Lancaster in blazing style.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Oct 14, 2005
Behind Aldrich's humoristic veneer and lush eye lurks a despairing absurdist Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 25, 2009
Played out as a seat-of-the-pants con game of shifting alliances and double crosses, it's a cheerfully ruthless tale that served as a veritable blueprint for the mercenary brand of Italian spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. Full Review
Stream on Demand
Nov 11, 2018
Rating: B- -- If you like your westerns with a salsa topping, this one should be spicy enough. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 18, 2006
It's amazing that Aldrich found time to be simultaneously playful, thoughtful, and angry as well as compact and economical, cramming all this stuff into a fast-moving, action-packed 94 minutes. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jun 23, 2011
...A lark of a Western...with a fabulous cast...
USA Today
Apr 13, 2001

Product Description:

In Robert Aldrich's action-packed Western, Benjamin Trane (Gary Cooper) and Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) are American soldiers of fortune hired by the Austrian ruler of Mexico, Maximilian, to safeguard a royal convoy transporting gold and an Austrian countess to the port of Vera Cruz. Things get complicated for the mercenaries when they begin to mistrust one another--and when Erin starts to fall for the countess. Aldrich throws a bit of European exotica into the standard oater formula of guns, grit, and gold to create a striking, memorable film that showcases the acting talents of Cooper and Lancaster, two monumental Hollywood stars. The director also sprinkles some trenchant historical commentary into his powder-keg narrative by showing the Hapsburg empire's bumbling attempt to annex Mexico.

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  • UPC: 883904243113
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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