Still from Vera Cruz — Vera Cruz (1954) — Robert AldrichPhotographed by Ernest Laszlo

Robert Aldrich

Vera Cruz

Name: Vera Cruz
Genre: Western
Released: 1954
Duration: 94 min

English / 1954 / 1h 34m

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Western

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Synopsis

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.