Yellowneck (1955)
1955 · Feature film · 83 min · dir. R. John Hugh
Five Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.
- Drama
- Western
- War
Synopsis
A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- R. John Hugh
- Writer
- Nat S. Linden
- Studio
- Empire Film Studios
- Released
- 1955-05-22
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Cast & crew
- R. John Hugh Director
Lin McCarthy
Stephen Courtleigh
Berry Kroeger
Harold Gordon- Al Tamez
- Jose Billie
- Roy Nash Osceola
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Great movie · Caper the Fox · 2014-07-14
and on an related note karen you are a troll if you hated the film so much than why boter watching you fucking idiot.. Anyway now that I said something to the little youngin who posted that in 2010, i just wanna say that this film is very impressive it's sad that their isn't mostly westerns filmed in florida but if any need to be remade it would be this one. It's very good
★★★★ · Not a bad movie · Eddie Baby · 2021-04-24
The story was interesting and the scenes kept the plot moving along. There really isn't a bunch of extra in this movie. Totally fascinating to see the Florida landscape before it became over populated.
★★★ · This is not a bad little movie · Cat Lady · 2007-08-28
"Yellowneck" has its faults, but there are great moments in it that more than make up for them. It's an interesting exploration of the idea that a brave man tastes of death once but a coward dies 1000 times, all the more interesting because it's an unusual movie to have been made in the mid-1950s. They made a good effort to be authentic, although some of the Southern accents are intermittent, and the sergeant is a bit too "World War II-ish" for my taste (but maybe Kevin Conway's performances in Ron Maxwell's Civil War films have spoiled me). The participation of Seminoles in the movie really…
★★★ · pretty good for an awful movie · kareneliot · 2010-05-09
I am an American Civil War buff, so I sat through this slow-mover with nice scenery... However, boring as it was - I am NOT at all sorry that I took the time to watch it.
★★ · Less than a B Movie · four hooves · 2009-12-16
I had high hopes for this one, but it is a C movie at best. Regardless of the danger the characters were in while trying to survive their trek through the Everglades, I found it very difficult to root for these Confederate deserters. The movie moves along very slowly and thus becomes quite boring.









