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.