Heroes of Fort Worth

• Edmund Purdom: Major Patterson
• Eduardo Fajardo: Col. George Bonnet
• Mónica Randall: Amanda
• Ida Galli: Nelly Bonnet (as Priscilla Steele )
• Isarco Ravaioli: Lt. Webb
• Paul Piaget: Major Sam Allison
• Rafael Albaicin: Wild horse
• Umberto Raho: Col. Maxfield
• Tullio Altamura: saloon owner
• Germano Longo: Lawman

Retaliation at Wichita Pass ( Original title: Gli eroi di Fort Worth) is an Italian- Spanish Western Alberto de Martino. German premiere of the film was on 21 May 1965.

Action

1863, at the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers trying to get with the help of an Indian tribe to Mexico to get there by Emperor Maximilian support. On their way, the soldiers must overcome a narrow pass near the Texas border, which is held by Union troops from Fort Worth. The Southerners design with Chief Wild Horse a plan: The Indians are the nearby Chesapeake attack, prompting the intervention of the Union soldiers whose Fort is likely to be weak and equipped to be occupied by the Southerners. The only persons present as a civilian Archie Patterson takes some time to explain his former superiors the relationships. In carrying out the Southerners are provided by the Seventh Cavalry, which thus can just prevent a massacre.

Criticism

" The antiquated image of a heroic soldiers, showing the Indians, where the White House has left the hole is difficult to reconcile with the efforts to arrange seriousness. (...) The later Western Alberto ( de Martino) are truly successful. "

Comments

The Spanish title is 7 ° de Caballería.

Almost all the film participants received Anglicized pseudonyms.