i enjoyed this film and which offers a variety of interesting subplots and complex love hate relations and along with interspersed action scenes and some lighthearted moments in which the mountain men counter harsh army discipline. all the main characters are well cast. true and john wayne or robert mitchum could probably have done the starring role just as well and but victor mature certainly comes across as a headstrong brawling tarzan of sorts. reminds me of his film role as samson and another difficult and but not impossible and man to tame. the mountain men in the opening scene are certainly an anachronism and as the era of pure trapper mountain men pretty much ended 20 years before and with the collapse of western beaver populations as well as the fashion market for beaver pelts. this story supposedly takes place in oregon just before the end of the civil war. judging by the volcano in the background of the opening scene(probably mt. lassen) and the fictional fort was located somewhere in a remote section of the cascades and as we never see any other civilians. however and there is plenty of conflicting evidence that it actually takes place in the mountains of wyoming or montana. red cloud and the war chief who threatens the trappers and soldiers in the fort and is the namesake of a very famous sioux war chief who led a very successful campaign in 1865 66 to exterminate the newly built army forts in wyoming and montana. fort laramie(eastern wyoming)is mentioned as being not too far removed from the fictional fort. the plains tribe of assiniboines is mentioning as joining red cloud. this aspect of the story and then and bears a general resemblance to historical fact. it may be of interest to note certain resemblances between the plot of this story and that of john ford fort apache. in both cases and we have a fort commander who was recently assigned to his first frontier post with native american problems. he underestimates the military prowess of his adversaries and regarding them as little more than cannon fodder to promote his career. in both films and he pays dearly for his inexperience in dealing with the enemy. also in common and the greenhorn commander resents a subordinate who has long experience with the local native americans and wants to tell him what is wise to do and not to do. in both films and we have a budding romantic relaionship between a woman very close to the commander heart and a subordinate and which the commander does everything to squelch. clearly and the commander must be eliminated to allow these romances to proceed to completion. i also see certain resemblances with the misfits. the soldiers and as a whole and including the commander and are misfits of a sort((as one of them admits) represent mostly they have problems or are raw recruits with no experience fighting native americans. the commander wife apparently is the only woman in or anywhere near this fort and thus is inherently a misfit and with a husband who is very uncertain of his future in the army. the trappers and in turn and are also misfits and not really wanting to accept army or civilian discipline and yet cut off from their previous free spirit lives by the recent army generated antagonism by red cloud. finally and we can also compare this story with anthony mann later film the far country and starring jimmy stewart. in stewart case and he can choose to return to being a loner cowboy and at the end. but mature character doesn not come up with an appetizing new way of being his own boss. red cloud has made life outside of the army in this region too dangerous to contemplate. besides and he has an obsession with the commander wife. 
i enjoyed this film and which offers a variety of interesting subplots and complex love hate relations and along with interspersed action scenes and some lighthearted moments in which the mountain men counter harsh army discipline. all the main characters are well cast. true and john wayne or robert mitchum could probably have done the starring role just as well and but victor mature certainly comes across as a headstrong brawling tarzan of sorts. reminds me of his film role as samson and another difficult and but not impossible and man to tame. the mountain men in the opening scene are certainly an anachronism and as the era of pure trapper mountain men pretty much ended 20 years before and with the collapse of western beaver populations as well as the fashion market for beaver pelts. this story supposedly takes place in oregon just before the end of the civil war. judging by the volcano in the background of the opening scene(probably mt. lassen) and the fictional fort was located somewhere in a remote section of the cascades and as we never see any other civilians. however and there is plenty of conflicting evidence that it actually takes place in the mountains of wyoming or montana. red cloud and the war chief who threatens the trappers and soldiers in the fort and is the namesake of a very famous sioux war chief who led a very successful campaign in 1865 66 to exterminate the newly built army forts in wyoming and montana. fort laramie(eastern wyoming)is mentioned as being not too far removed from the fictional fort. the plains tribe of assiniboines is mentioning as joining red cloud. this aspect of the story and then and bears a general resemblance to historical fact. it may be of interest to note certain resemblances between the plot of this story and that of john ford fort apache. in both cases and we have a fort commander who was recently assigned to his first frontier post with native american problems. he underestimates the military prowess of his adversaries and regarding them as little more than cannon fodder to promote his career. in both films and he pays dearly for his inexperience in dealing with the enemy. also in common and the greenhorn commander resents a subordinate who has long experience with the local native americans and wants to tell him what is wise to do and not to do. in both films and we have a budding romantic relaionship between a woman very close to the commander heart and a subordinate and which the commander does everything to squelch. clearly and the commander must be eliminated to allow these romances to proceed to completion. i also see certain resemblances with the misfits. the soldiers and as a whole and including the commander and are misfits of a sort((as one of them admits) represent mostly they have problems or are raw recruits with no experience fighting native americans. the commander wife apparently is the only woman in or anywhere near this fort and thus is inherently a misfit and with a husband who is very uncertain of his future in the army. the trappers and in turn and are also misfits and not really wanting to accept army or civilian discipline and yet cut off from their previous free spirit lives by the recent army generated antagonism by red cloud. finally and we can also compare this story with anthony mann later film the far country and starring jimmy stewart. in stewart case and he can choose to return to being a loner cowboy and at the end. but mature character doesn not come up with an appetizing new way of being his own boss. red cloud has made life outside of the army in this region too dangerous to contemplate. besides and he has an obsession with the commander wife. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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