‘Escape From Fort Bravo’: Finding Hope Beneath the Desert Sun

Actor William Holden teams with then-up-and-coming director John Sturges in a Western that tests a soldier’s principles.

Capt. Roper (William Holden), in “Escape from Fort Bravo.” MGM

NR | 1h 39m | Drama, Romance, Western | 1953

It’s no wonder that William Holden became one of the defining leading men of the 1950s. He could shift effortlessly between roles and film genres: charming romantic in “Sabrina,” conflicted soul in “Picnic,” and determined officer in “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”