Ulzana's Raid

Ulzana's Raid
Film poster
Directed byRobert Aldrich
Written byAlan Sharp
Produced byCarter DeHaven
StarringBurt Lancaster
Bruce Davison
Richard Jaeckel
Jorge Luke [es]
Joaquín Martínez
CinematographyJoseph Biroc
Edited byMichael Luciano
Music byFrank De Vol
Color processTechnicolor
Production
companies
De Haven Productions
The Associates & Aldrich Company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 27, 1972 (1972-10-27)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.8 million[1]
Box office414,559 admissions (France)[2]

Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 American revisionist Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison and Joaquin Martinez. The film, which was filmed on location in Arizona, was directed by Robert Aldrich based on a script by Alan Sharp. It portrays a brutal raid by Chiricahua Apaches against European settlers in 1880s Arizona. The bleak and nihilistic tone of U.S. troops chasing an elusive merciless enemy has been seen as allegory to the United States participation in the Vietnam War.[3][4]

  1. ^ Alain Silver and James Ursini, Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, Limelight, 1995 p 284
  2. ^ French box office results for Robert Aldrich films at Box Office Story
  3. ^ Williams, Tony (2004). Body and soul: the cinematic vision of Robert Aldrich. Scarecrow Press. pp. 181–185. ISBN 978-0-8108-4993-8.
  4. ^ "In Ulzana's Raid, the Vietnam War's in the Arizona desert". www.chicagoreader.com. August 14, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2020.