Vera Cruz (1954)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
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.
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What critics compared Vera Cruz to
The model of behavior is Basic Situational Ruthlessness, as modeled for Leone in the most influential western of the 1950s, Robert Aldrich’s Vera Cruz, which is also about freebooting opportunists looking to make big money in the confusion of a civil war.
Robert Aldrich ("Vera Cruz"/Too Late the Hero"/"Ulzana's Raid") helms this commercially motivated populist WW II drama, that has gone onto undeserved legendary status and is a much imitated film.