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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

vincentlynch-moonoi This is very much a Western, except that it takes place in the Everglades. This time they aren't Sioux or Navajo, but Seminoles. But make no mistake...this is pretty much a Hollywood Western. Which is okay...and I still give it some bonus points for taking place during the Seminole Wars...something not covered very much in American cinema.We don't really learn much about Chief Osceola and the Seminole Indian Wars. But what we do see is the personal battle between a commanding officer (Richard Carlson) and his lieutenant (Rock Hudson). And we see the beauty of the Everglades (and yes, much of the film was actually shot in the Everglades), and in stunning color. Anthony Quinn is here as Osceola, but it's not a particularly good role for Quinn. I don't know enough about the real history of this time period in Florida, but I'm sure the film is ridiculously un-historic. Certainly the way they present Osceola dying is totally incorrect. And, while there appear to be Seminole Indians in the cast, all the speaking parts of Seminole Indians are actually white actors with heavy makeup (such as Hugh O'Brian...who is laughable).So, taken with a grain...or maybe a cartload...of salt, it's a good enough Western, and Rock Hudson does nicely here. I'm undecided about Richard Carlson's acting here. It is good to see Barbara Hale in the lead female role; she was a better actress than usually credited. And, they managed to wring out a somewhat happy ending in what was in reality a sad affair.

HotToastyRag Rock Hudson fans, rent Seminole. He's so ridiculously handsome, it makes you want to make an optometrist appointment for Barbara Hale. In the movie, he's a lieutenant from West Point who comes back to his hometown after many years. His sweetheart Barbara isn't exactly glad to see him. Why? Because she's got another sweetheart on the side. Magnetic and passionate Anthony Quinn is Rock's rival, but since he plays an American Indian, it's a taboo romance. At that time, it was pretty racy of Hollywood to take an interracial romance seriously, let alone to show smooches!The love triangle alone makes Seminole an interesting movie, but the side plot is also compelling. Rock is under the command of the stern, unfeeling Richard Carlson, and they constantly struggle with how to deal with the American Indians. Richard wants to obliterate them and take the territory, but Rock knows them-and is even friends with one of them, namely Anthony Quinn. And yes, that makes things even more complicated!If you're don't really like Cavalry vs. Indians movies, you won't like this one. I wasn't really happy with the way things ended up, so this isn't a movie I'll watch over and over, but it was entertaining for the first hour.

Alan Cole I have been all over Florida, but have never seen anywhere so exotic looking as the swamp in the film where they paddled through. I have been throughout the Everglades and recognize similarities with much of the film's scenes. Though it is beautiful, I have never seen the unreal beauty shown in the film in the one scene where they are paddling. Where is it... exactly. Someone thought it may be someplace in Tarpon Springs. But, I have searched the internet for a place that might match it. Still nothing. There are plants in the scene that I don't even recognize. They look Floridian, but better than real. My suspicion is that it was what Florida looked like in a less touched era. It is so beautiful that I want to go there tomorrow. But where?

Nazi_Fighter_David "Seminole" is set at Fort King, in the Florida, territory of 1835, where West Pointer Lieutenant Hudson is charged with the murder of a sentry...At the court-martial he recounts his story: the wary co-existence between the settlers and the Indians was threatened by the strict commander (Richard Carlson) of the Army fort... Hudson's childhood sweetheart, Barbara Hale, agreed to meet with Osceola (Anthony Quinn), a mutual friend from their youth who had given up his own Army career to become chief of the Seminole tribe...Through her influence and Quinn's respect for Hudson, the redskin leader eventually comes to the stockade under a truce flag... But Indian-hating Carlson imprisons Quinn in a detention pit, the latter dies, and the situation deteriorates from bad to worse until the Indians rescue Hudson, who had been jailed by Carlson for killing a soldier while trying to restore peace...All the cast of the film (photographed in Technicolor) gives energetic performances... Barbara Hale's major asset is her physical presence, providing a tone of sincerity... Anthony Quinn plays the noble 'savage' for the last time...