Two Flags West (1950)

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Two Flags West is a 1950 Western drama set during the American Civil War, directed by Robert Wise and starring Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde. Based on the historical service of "Galvanized Yankees", the film tells the story of a company of imprisoned Confederate States Army cavalry troopers who are granted amnesty and travel to a remote New Mexico post that is attacked by Kiowa Indians.

Production

The film's working title was Trumpet to the Morn.

Fox had originally intended the role of Col. Clay Tucker to be played by either Victor Mature or Richard Basehart, but Joseph Cotten was cast at the last minute, loaned to Fox by Selznick International Pictures. The role of the major was meant to be played by Lee J. Cobb, who owed Twentieth Century-Fox a film after recently ending a long-term contract with the studio after refusing to appear in Where the Sidewalk Ends.

The film was shot on location at San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, using buildings of the Pueblo Indians for those of Fort Thorn, and on the nearby Shipman Ranch near Black Mesa, which is seen prominently in the film. The local Tewa Indians agreed to use of their community, with buildings as old as 400 years, when director Robert Wise promised that filming would remain clear of the tribal kiva (underground council room), cemetery and sacred shrin…

Screenwriter Frank S. Nugent developed the concept for the film while writing the screenplay for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon in 1948. During research Nugent consulted historians Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt, authors of Fighting Indians of the West, for sources of information about the use of "Galvanized Yankees", and learned that Confederate plans to connect El Paso, Texas, with California were formulated in late 1864.

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