once you sit down to see this film a cannon for cordoba you get the feeling it go to be a great . the reason . the film begin with a rouse score by noted composer elmer bernstein who give u such memorable theme a the great escape and the magnificent seven . indeed and when you read the opening credit headline the cast be none other than george peppard a capt . rod douglas and you know it go to have action and lot of it . furthermore when you see actor john russel play general john j. pershing and you know youre in for a heroic saga . the story be take from the annals of the mexican revolution and involve the u. s. in a border town dispute with the mexican bandit who cross the rio grande in the early 1900s . among the most brazen of the rebel leader be general cordova ( raf vallone ) . with his army of mexican revolutionary and he attack pershing and kill his men and steal some valuable artillery piece . since the united state army can not enter mexico legally and capt . douglas be send on what be slat a suicide mission and without order and without aid from pershing . his mission be to retrieve the cannon and destroy a rebel stronghold and bring cordova back alive . select the roughest and toughest and most experienced and certainly the most insolent men available and douglas enters mexico and attack the nearly impregnable fortress . dramatic action follow and a do lot of explosive excitement . if one be ask for criticism and i would say the choice of heavy . vallone and john larch be not very menace . not so with the men who side with peppard . pete duel and don gordon ( who be superb . ) nevertheless and this movie be recommend a good viewing . .