War Paint

I have never tried these "made to order" NTSC DVD's, mainly because I think they are badly advertized here in the U/K. By chance I found some much wanted westerns on Amazon, all $19 plus postage from U.S. and I took a chance. First, they are of course NTSC, so be careful, but I am very satisfied indeed with the quality(they say "material from best available source" which can be a get out, but not here). (The following remarks apply to WAR PAINT). So delivery and quality very good. The film is a classic Cavalry and Indians western, beautifully filmed mostly (all?) on location, and with a "western" cast to die for..Larsen/Peter Graves/Wilke/Walter Reed/Doucette/ Douglas Kennedy/Stan Jolley, and of course Stack and the wonderful Joan Taylor in one of her best roles. A great pleasure for me, and I await the others with impatience (Ghost Tpwn/Forts Defiance and Bowie and 2 others). I don't know whether anyone in the U/K will read this, or if it is even helpful to anyone. I hope so.

This looks like a really cool movie. Recently, I bought this and 3 other westerns from Amazon, and could not get them to play in my DVD/Blue Ray entertainment system. I returned them and Amazon sent me a replacement, but that one didn't work either. All other movies I've bought from Amazon play perfectly. Quite a disappointment, because I've never seen this and would like to be able to someday. The good news is that Amazon was very prompt in having the movies returned and my account credited. Would still like to see them, though!

Native female stereotypes in Western films: I wanted an older Western film and the way it portrayed native women. Joan Taylor's role is some different that the norm, but she still ends up with the white guy.

Great movie,exellent!Thank you.

good film.two favourite actors.

Good Western

I enjoyed the movie very much!

"War Paint" (1953) starring Robert Stack is a good "mission across the desert" movie with good actors, has an OK script, and portrays US Army deserters who murder loyal Army soldiers and try to murder their commanding officer, and almost succeed.Very few movies portray this important military discipline problem which has happened often in US and other Army military history.US Army officers are issued sidearms (handguns) to defend themselves against enlisted men they command who may decide to disobey orders and murder the commander who gave them orders they disobey.During the War In Vietnam, the phenomenon of enlisted men murdering officers who commanded them was publicized and often called "fragging." Enlisted men who attack and try to murder officers, and sometimes succeed, is not new to military experience. Leading a military unit is dangerous for many reasons, not only because of enemy fire, but due to "friendly fire" from soldiers part of one's military group, which "friendly fire" is, sadly and tragically, sometimes intentional.Murdered officers killed by their own men is not new in military history.This "War Paint" (1953) movie set in desert country about a small military unit led by a single junior (low level) officer (a Lieutenant) played by Robert Stack shows enlisted men, about a dozen of them, made desperate by harsh no-water desert conditions, and greedy due to a gold mine they come across on their way to delivering a peace treaty to an Indian tribal chief (the mission the military group has in the "old West" of post-Civil War 19th century times in the far west desert country. (This movie was shot entirely in California's "Death Valley," located near the Nevada/ California state border, famous for it's moonscape appearance where almost nothing, plant or animal, can live, or does.) The movie story is very simple, and not a little eerie.It was made the same year Robert Stack starred in the first 3-D movie titled "Bwana Devil," set in Africa.....another Robert Stack adventure movie."War Paint" is a good movie for several reasons, including it's unusual and forthright treatment of bad soldiers doing damage to good soldiers, all in the same Army and supposed to be on the "same team." A single female character is included in the cast, and she is supposed to be an Indian maiden, the daughter of the Indian tribal chief the military group seeks to present with a US Govt. peace treaty.The girl is beautiful, dressed in a form fitting doe-skin dress, has a perfect complexion, lovely thick dark braided hair, every hair neatly in place, a very pretty face, and a great, curvy female figure, including chorus girl legs shown off when she rides horses or wrestles around on the ground when attacked by soldiers or attacking the soldiers on her own.She is not a typical movie Indian girl...not submissive, not inarticulate, not demure. She's smart as hell in every way, and shows off her good mental qualities (which match her dazzling appearance) without apology or restraint.Her physical beauty is a welcome visual relief for movie viewers who must watch the movie story set in the dull and ugly moonscape desert environment which oppresses the struggling soldiers for obvious reasons.The Indian maiden does not join the military group until the movie is 2/3rds over, and then she is their hostile and unpleasant prisoner, outspokenly "anti-White man!" But we see her (the audience does) well before the actor soldiers do, and we see her comely features and great legs.She helps her brother, who opposes the US Govt. treaty his father, the Indian tribal chief wants and supports. The brother murders American soldiers, is taken prisoner by the military group, escapes, attacks the group, and finally is killed, all while the younger adult female sister assists her brother and stays out of sight of the military group....until the last 1/3 of the movie when she shoots a straggling soldier during a rifle battle she initiates, and is caught, taken prisoner, and retained as a hostage to present to the Indian tribal chief.Predictably, she befriends handsome Robert Stack, and at the end of the movie, only the two of them (Stack and the girl) remain....all other soldiers part of the "mission across the desert" have died.....most due to being killed by fellow soldiers.The whole movie is unusual and thought provoking, worth seeing.-----------------Written by Tex Allen, SAG-AFTRA movie actor.

With a great story line and very good acting this is a treasured acquisition,My sincere complements to RareWaves for excellent service.

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good film well acted