Die Teufelspassage (1954)
17KDie Teufelspassage: Directed by George Sherman. With Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendáriz, Alfonso Bedoya. A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.
“In the last days of the Civil War, Confederate officer Joel McCrea and associates rob a Union storehouse of $2,000,000. They head down to a small patch of Mexican territory controlled by renegade general Pedro Armendariz and start negotiating to turn that into arms for the Confederacy. McCrea gets various offers — and attempted beatings — from people who think the gold and a ticket to Europe are better to have, although Armendarizu0026#39;s mistress, Yvonne De Carlo is warmly friendly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis seems to have been movie shot in three-strip Technicolor, and under cinematographer Irving Glassberg, it offers the rich blacks that process excelled in. Director George Sherman, an expert in u0026quot;Shaky Au0026quot; westerns, directs the script well enough, and themain cast is excellent. With Armendariz weaselly under his bravado, De Carlo sad and cynical, and McCrea, as aways, bluff and straightforward. A very pleasant movie.”
