If you loved Vera Cruz, try Ulzana's Raid
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Robert Aldrich, and they both carry the autumnal, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to Vera Cruz, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Ulzana's Raid is
Apocalypse Now if it were a Western. A callow officer is sent to pursue a deadly Apache warband across the Arizona desert. The movie's stark violence suggests a nation devouring itself.

