Fort Ti

1953 "THE FIRST GREAT OUTDOOR EPIC OF AMERICA IN 3-DIMENSIONS"
5.1| 1h13m| en
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Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.

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Interesteg What makes it different from others?
Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
drystyx Director Castle shines his swastika once again in making a chick flick that is nothing but depressing and hate filled as far as men are concerned.On the surface, it's an action movie about early American settlements. But the heavy handed propaganda of Castle just blots this out completely.It's a woman's world in Castle's world, where men shun beauties to court plain Jane blondes, and the entire story is so contrived to kill the brunette that only the Nazis can avoid being sickened. Had this been reversed, and women be forced to court blond men, they would scream bloody murder, but it's politically correct for them to force men to sit through their hellish propaganda.It's impossible to follow or understand the motivation of the hero, because it's written either by a woman or by a Nazi. It's obviously written for women.There's no incentive, and all we get is depressed.
bkoganbing Fort Ticonderoga or as it was originally known Fort Carillon when the French built was the focal point of a lot of military action in both the Seven Years War and the American Revolution. In fact this film is factually wrong on the face because it was Fort Carillon and became Ticonderoga only after Lord Jeffrey Amherst took it with the help of Roger's Rangers.A film about the military action would have been far more interesting than what we got here in Fort Ti. The action scenes are fine, but the writers stuck in a rather stupid love story involving George Montgomery and two women.Montgomery has other worries though. His sister and her two children have been taken by the French to insure that her husband James Seay does a good job spying for the French. While Amherst and Rogers are taking the strategic fort, Montgomery has to affect a rescue of captives including his sister and nephews. This film could have used A treatment and a kind of colonial Longest Day plot. For a B film it was nicely photographed and the battle scenes are good.But it could have been so much better.
SgtSlaughter This is the only French & Indian War movie I've seen besides NORTHWEST PASSAGE, plus re-run some episodes of the TV series by the same name (on TNT a while back).This particular movie isn't too great. No remarkable cast. No big action scenes. George Montgomery sounds to be reading any of his longer lines from cue cards. The story is boring and unoriginal.One thing I did like -- in every battle scene characters throw knives, spears, tomahakws etc. right at the camera and the objects look to flying right at you. On the big screen or sitting next the TV this will make you jump every time.AMC has a pretty decent quality print. But I had no 3D glasses, so the movie looked normal rather than the original 3D format.
bux You'll have to dodge those arrows, spears and tomahawks, in this otherwise routine period piece, originaly filmed in 3D.