Second viewing; first viewed on June 21, 1998.
The film is set in 1763 during the so-called Pontiac's rebellion. An English woman has her death sentence commuted to indentured servitude in America. A weapons trader lusts after her and is opposed by a military who gradually becomes enamored of her.
Not very different in structure from the previous film in this blog. Here, too, we have the implausible notion of a man entangled in a terrible conflict who finds extra time to recurrently save a woman in peril. Again, the plot offers little insight into the mechanics of the conflict, choosing melodrama instead. As a spectacle it is not totally negligible. The film portrays Native Americans as primitive (they almost burn the heroine at a stake on the urging of a jealous woman) and treacherous, well beyond plausibility.
Rating: 38 (up from 30)
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