The Last Frontier

"Jed" (Victor Mature) and his two trapping pals happen upon an army fort in Oregon where the captain (Guy Madison) offers them jobs as scouts. They can't have a Blue-coat, but "Jed" has a hankering to settle down and get married - and this seems like an idea place to start. Thing is though, he aims just a little too high with his aspirations - the wife of the colonel (Anne Bancroft) who has just a...

Allegorical awakenings at Fort Shallan. The Last Frontier (AKA: Savage Wilderness) is directed by Anthony Mann and adapted to screenplay by Philip Yordan and Russell Hughes from the novel, The Gilded Rooster, written by Richard Emery Roberts. It stars Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore and Anne Bancroft. Music is by Leigh Harline and cinematography by William Mellor. ...