william holden do escape from fort bravo a a double loan out from his two studio employer and paramount and columbia . it would have be a wasted trip and but for the fact that he also do executive suite in the same package . mr. holden be much in demand after win the oscar for stalag 17. he very much like sefton from stalag 17 only this time he the jailer and up to all the trick the prisoner have . he second in command of a prison stockade in the west during the civil war . and the prisoner and their jailer be surround by hostile mescalero apache . one trick he not up to be the charm of confederate agent eleanor parker . coincidentally enough she a friend of polly bergen who be post commandant carl benton reid daughter and she arrive for bergen wedding to young lieutenant richard anderson . but she also sweet on confederate captain john forsythe and she there to spring him . just why forsythe service be so desperately need by the confederacy be not go into . in any event i would think that the confederacy would try for a mass escape like in the great escape before use an agent to affect the escape of one man and some of his select companion . and what companion . two feud enlist men william demarest and william campbell and a sensitive young lieutenant in john lupton who already fail at an escape himself . not the guy i would take along . nevertheless escape from fort bravo boast of some great scenic photography in death valley and a very exciting last stand battle with the escapee and holden facing certain death at the hand of the mescaleros . director john sturges and all the player involve do film a lot good than escape from fort bravo .