Unconquered
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.
Critics Sentiment
Holden walks unarmed into Chief Guyasuta's camp to save Abby
Fort Pitt commander accepts Guyasuta's false promise to let them go
The film recovers dramatically from the weak false surrender plot point to the exciting corpse deception twist, jumping nearly 2.5 points as the clever military ruse energizes the finale.
Critics found Unconquered to be classic DeMille spectacle with impressive production values and exciting action sequences, particularly praising Karloff's dignified Chief Guyasuta and the waterfall escape stunt. However, they noted uneven pacing, melodramatic performances especially from Goddard, and occasional lapses in plotting that prevented it from reaching the heights of DeMille's best work.
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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
Virginia Grey
Diana
Porter Hall
Leach
Mike Mazurki
Bone
Richard Gaines
Colonel George Washington
Virginia Campbell
Mrs. John Fraser
Gavin Muir
Lieut. Fergus McKenzie
Alan Napier
Sir William Johnson
Ninetta Sunderland
Mrs. Pruitt
Marc Lawrence
Medicine Man Sioto
Jane Nigh
Evelyn
Crew
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