Unconquered

1947 147 min ★ 6.4 Drama, Adventure, History

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

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Cast

Gary Cooper

Captain Christopher Holden

Paulette Goddard

Abby

Howard Da Silva

Garth

Boris Karloff

Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas

Cecil Kellaway

Jeremy Love

Ward Bond

John Fraser

Katherine DeMille

Hannah

Henry Wilcoxon

Captain Steele

C. Aubrey Smith

Lord Chief Justice

Victor Varconi

Captain Simeon Ecuyer

Details

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

Screenplay

Charles Bennett

Tagline

"I bought this woman for my own… and I'll kill the man who touches her!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$5,000,000

Production

Paramount Pictures

Reviews

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John Chard

May 11, 2019

★ 7/10

Unconquerable, because, they are strong and free! Unconquered is directed by Cecil B. DeMille and collectively written by Charles Bennett, Frederic M. Frank and Jesse Lasky, Jr. It is based on the novel written by Neil H. Swanson. It stars Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kelleway, ward Bond and Katherine DeMille. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography ...

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CinemaSerf

July 7, 2022

★ 7/10

It's from Cecil B. De Mille so of course it's long - but for the most part, this frontiersman western flows OK, with a good cast delivering a well paced and written, action-packed historical adventure with plenty of good old cowboys and indians battles. Paulette Goddard is sentenced to deportation and indenture from the UK to her American colonies and finds herself the property of "Capt. Holden" (...

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Wuchak

October 21, 2024

★ 6/10

**_Indian wars in Western Pennsylvania, 1763, with Gary Cooper_** A striking indentured servant from London arrives in America (Paulette Goddard) and ends up involved in the outbreak of Pontiac’s War as a colonist captain and a shady trader vie over her (Cooper and Howard da Silva). The latter is in league with Chief of the Senecas (Boris Karloff) and married to his daughter (Katherine DeMille)...