Storyline

Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold.—Jim Beaver

Plot Keywords

arizona territory, apache indian, tomahawk, cannon, bugle, campfire, knife throwing, spear throwing, axe, shot with a bow and arrow, gunfight, shootout, machine gun, gatling gun, explosion, gunshot wound, punched in the face, horse, axe throwing, blood

Short Review

Burt Kennedy is a very successful director of action pictures; but in The Deserter he is shackled with a rather unappetising script (by Clair Huffaker) of peculiarly unremitting and meaningless violence.

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