Major Dundee

About Major Dundee

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S.

Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee is a 1965 war western film. The film is filed under mexico, prisoner of war, apache nation, and confederate.

Charlton Heston stars as Major Amos Charles Dundee, Richard Harris as Captain Benjamin Tyreen, Jim Hutton as Lieutenant Graham, and James Coburn as Samuel Potts. It runs 125 minutes and was released in March 1965.

The screenplay is by Harry Julian Fink and Oscar Saul. In the United States it streams on YouTube TV.

The Undefeated make useful companions to Major Dundee. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 183 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.