The Wells Film Society

Welcome to all who long to see the best, classic, most unusual films in a REAL cinema. NOT today’s blockbusters. Great directors from any decade. Proper cinema screen with top-quality projection at the Wells Film Centre. Monday and Tuesday evenings (YOU choose which) every 4 weeks throughout the year. See what you’ve already missed!

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Next film: Mon-Tues 23-24 Aug

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Site updated: 27 July 2010

What’s it about?

An unusally intelligent Western, raising moral questions and offering damning parallels with the Vietnam war.

Burt Lancaster plays a weary and cynical scout, in opposition to a young and rigidly Christian officer, in their joint pursuit of a gang of renegade Apaches.

What some have said

VFG: “poses a complex series of questions about the nature of heroism, racism, and American imperialism ...”

TOFG: “Sharp's marvellous script elucidates the issues and psychological causes of racial warfare ...”

Some on-line reviews: IMDB, Wikipedia.

Many awards and great commercial success in the USA.

(TOFG, VFG, 1001, EFG, H1000, RT, BN100, DP, NYFCC, DT, ...? What do these acronyms mean?)

Ulzana’s Raid

Robert Aldrich, US, 1972, 103 mins.