Alvarez Kelly

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name = Alvarez Kelly


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director = Edward Dmytryk
producer = Sol C. Siegel
Ray David (uncredited)
writer = Franklin Coen
Elliott Arnold (uncredited)
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starring = William Holden
Richard Widmark
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runtime = 116 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0060095

"Alvarez Kelly" is a 1966 war film set in the American Civil War. It starred William Holden and Richard Widmark. The film was based on the real-life Beefsteak Raid of September 1864.

Plot

Cattleman Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union army in Virginia. However, as he nears the end of his long cattle drive, Kelly is kidnapped by Confederate raiders led by Colonel Tom Rossiter (Richard Widmark). The Confederacy desperately needs the beef to feed its soldiers besieged in Richmond.

Kelly is "persuaded" (after having one of his fingers shot off by Rossiter) to help steal the herd. For revenge, he arranges passage for Rossiter's discontented Southern belle fiancée, Liz Pickering (Janice Rule), on a blockade runner leaving the city. Despite the hatred between the two men, they manage to work together. Kelly first teaches Rossiter's men how to drive cattle. Then, they proceed to capture the herd, despite the efforts of Union officer Major Albert Stedman (Patrick O'Neal).

ee also

*William Holden as Alvarez Kelly
*Richard Widmark as Colonel Tom Rossiter
*Janice Rule as Liz Pickering
*Patrick O'Neal as Major Albert Steadman
*Victoria Shaw as Charity Warwick
*Roger C. Carmel as Captain Angus Ferguson, a blockade runner
*Richard Rust as Sergeant Hatcher

External links

*imdb title|id=0060095
*tcmdb title|id=3969