Untamed (1955 film)

Untamed is a 1955 CinemaScope adventure film made by Twentieth CenturyFox in DeLuxe Color. It was directed by Henry King and produced by William A. Bacher, Bert E. Friedlob and Gerd Oswald as associate producer. The screenplay was by William A. Bacher, Michael Blankfort, Frank Fenton and Talbot Jennings from a 1950 novel by Helga Moray. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by Leo Tover.

Dutchman Paul van Riebeck Tyrone Power a Boer cavalry commander travels to Ireland from his native South Africa in 1847 to buy horses for his commandos back home, who need them to fight Zulu tribal warriors. He meets lovely Katie ONeill Susan Hayward, daughter of the man selling the horses. She falls in love, but Paul feels he must return home alone.Squire ONeill Henry ONeill dies and a potato famine cripples the Irish people financially. Katie decides to marry Shawn Kildare John Justin and persuades him to move to South Africa, a place Paul has told her much about. They have a son before arriving in Cape Town, where an 800mile trek to Hoffen Valley awaits them. ........

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