This film takes place in 1912 along the border between Mexico and the United States where a Mexican bandit by the name of "General Hector Cordoba" (Raf Vallone) has been participating in a revolution against his government and often makes raids across the Rio Grande to acquire valuable merchandise to help supplement his army. Not content with the Mexican government's efforts to stop these raids the United States dispatches "General John J. 'Blackjack' Pershing" (John Russell) to put a stop to them. Unfortunately, not long after arriving there he suffers the loss of six of his cannon which are stolen by General Cordoba's forces. Furious at this setback -and unable to take his army into Mexico-General Pershing orders a small group of misfits under the command of "Captain Rod Douglas" (George Peppard) to infiltrate General Cordoba's headquarters, destroy the cannon and bring the bandit back alive to face trial. Needless to say, this is an extremely difficult assignment which becomes even more difficult by the fact that one of Captain Douglas' own men by the name of "Jackson Harkness" (Don Gordon) has vowed to kill him because of an earlier incident involving his brother. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an entertaining film for the most part even though it does have a couple of scenes which defy all sense of reality. I also thought that the ending could have been drawn out a bit more but all things considered I enjoyed this film and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
Review of Cannon for Cordoba
