Robert Aldrich - Vera Cruz (1954) [DVD9 PAL]

Robert Aldrich - Vera Cruz (1954) [DVD9 PAL]


Original title Vera Cruz
Country of manufacture United States of America
Year 1954
Duration 94 min
Western genre
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Subject Borden Chase
Screenplay Roland Kibbee and James R. Webb
Production company Flora Productions, Hecht-Lancaster Productions
Photography Ernest Laszlo
Russel Shearman special effects
Music by Hugo Friedhofer
Alfred Ybarra scenography

Interpreters and characters

Gary Cooper: Colonel Benjamin Trane
Burt Lancaster: Joe Erin
Denise Darcel: Countess Marie Duvarre
Cesar Romero: Marquis Henry de Labordère
George Macready: Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg
Sara Montiel: Nina
Ernest Borgnine: Donnegan
Morris Ankrum: Juarist general Ramirez
Henry Brandon: Captain Danette
Charles Bronson: Pittsburgh
Jack Lambert: Charlie
Jack Elam: Tex
James McCallion: Little-Bit
James Seay: Abilene
Archie Savage: Ballard

Language: English French Italian
Subtitles: English French Italian Dutch Arabic Bulgarian
Romanian Portuguese Spanish German


Vera Cruz is a 1954 western film directed by Robert Aldrich. Based on a subject by Borden Chase (pseudonym of Frank Fowler), the film is characterized by the different ethical views of the two protagonists and the violent attitudes that are represented.

The historical context is that of the Mexican conflict of 1866, during the French intervention in support of the Mexican emperor Maximilian of Habsburg in opposition to the republicans of former president Benito Juárez.