Unconquered

Unconquerable, because, they are strong and free!

Unconquered is directed by Cecil B. DeMille and collectively written by Charles Bennett, Frederic M. Frank and Jesse Lasky, Jr. It is based on the novel written by Neil H. Swanson. It stars Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kelleway, ward Bond and Katherine DeMille. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography by Ray Rennahan.

Frontiersman Chris Holden (Cooper) becomes embroiled in the machinations of Martin Garth (Ds Silva), who for his own ends is helping the Native American Pontiac uprising. All this while trying to keep slave girl Abby Hale (Goddard) out of harms way

And 6 pence!

So it comes to pass that this really is no historical documen...

It's from Cecil B. De Mille so of course it's long - but for the most part, this frontiersman western flows OK, with a good cast delivering a well paced and written, action-packed historical adventure with plenty of good old cowboys and indians battles. Paulette Goddard is sentenced to deportation and indenture from the UK to her American colonies and finds herself the property of "Capt. Holden" (Gary Cooper) but the object of the desires of the sleazy "Garth" (Howard da Silva). Her emancipation (or not) is closely aligned with the survival of the British troops stationed in the Ohio wilderness against both the opposing French troops, and the sly, cunning Sececa indians - led by a rather oddly cast, but still decent Boris Karloff ("Guyasuta...

Indian wars in Western Pennsylvania, 1763, with Gary Cooper

A striking indentured servant from London arrives in America (Paulette Goddard) and ends up involved in the outbreak of Pontiacs War as a colonist captain and a shady trader vie over her (Cooper and Howard da Silva). The latter is in league with Chief of the Senecas (Boris Karloff) and married to his daughter (Katherine DeMille).

Helmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Unconquered (1947) involves the historical setting six years after the events in 1992s The Last of the Mohicans. Coming out 45 years earlier, Unconquered is naturally quaint in some ways, think Gone with the Wind on the American frontier of the pre-Revolutionary War days. Yet if you can acclimate to the old-fashioned...