Product Description

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Tod a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.System Requirements:Features: Disk 1 Side A: Full Frame Feature Posters & One Sheets Gallery Production Stills Gallery Behind the Scenes Gallery Theatrical Trailer Disk 1 Side B: Widescreen Feature Posters & One Sheets Gallery Production Stills Gallery Behind the Scenes Gallery Theatrical Trailer Running Time: 98 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 024543238942 Manufacturer No: 2233896

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12347 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2006-05-23
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

Western Movie
This movie is very good. It is not a violent western. The Last Wagon has action and romance. It is very pleasent all the people to attend.

Got worse as it went along
The first 75% of the movie isn't too bad compared to most of the silly, mythical West movies of the 1950's. It's beautifully filmed in Arizona (where it's supposed to be taking place, as well), with vast vistas of canyons and mountains. However, the last 25% is far fetched like a silly 1950's western with an absurd ending.

Magnificent Western
Delmer Daves made some great Westerns in the 'fifties of which the best known are probably Broken Arrow and the recently revamped 3.10 To Yuma .However for my money the BEST is the movie under consideration here,The Last Wagon .Were it not for a slightly anti-climactic and tacked on moralistic ending it would be flawless.
The opening crane shots alone are proof positive that we are in the hands of a cinematic genius -they are among the very best in cinema regardless of genre.Shot in a rugged part of Arizona the movie opens on a chase sequence as Comanche Todd (Widmark)is being pursued across inhospitable terrain by a trio of lawmen .They are hunting him down for murder -he killed their brothers .It emerges that he had strong motives for so doing -they killed his wife and two sons .Captured after a gruelling chase he is taken by his surviving tracker to join up with a small wagon train .Chained to a wheel his treatment by his captor is unrelentingly harsh but he does win a measure of support from some train members.
The train is attacked and virtually wiped out by Apaches and Todd along with a handful of others survives

He agrees to endeavour to lead the survivors to safety across hostile territory and handicapped by shortages of water ,food and ammunition.the party is also less than unanimous in the way it views Todd .Billy (Tommy Rettig)is an admirer -a teenager he comes to view Todd as a surrogate father .The women of the party are a mixed race woman Jolie (Susan Kohler)who is roundly abused by her snobbish and racist half sister Valinda(Stephanie Griffith).The other woman present is Jenny (Felicia Farr)who forms a strong emotional bond with Todd .The men are the hostile and belicose Ridge (Nick Adams)and the calmer Clint (Ray Stricklin)
It is a fraught journey with numerous encounters with Apaches and the odd snake not to mention a final brush with the cavalry

This is a very physical movie-Todd endures the kind of physical working over that befell James Stewart in the Anthony Mann pictures from the same era-at one point he is even crucified on a wheel .There is a genuine sense of hardsshsip conveyed here .

The journey is not simply to physical survival -it is journey which sees many of the characters revising their world view and growing as people as a result of their ordeal.It is a genuine masterpiece and its relative neglect is a cause of sadnees and sorrow.