Escape From Fort Bravo (Warner Archives) [Blu-ray]John Sturges directs this 1950s American Western starring William Holden and Eleanor Parker. At the height of the American Civil War, a remote Union outpost in Arizona is ruled over by the fierce Captain Roper ( Holden). With a number of disaffected Confederate prisoners under his charge, his reputation for recapturing escapees, whatever the cost, is sorely tested. Meanwhile, the Mescalero Indians outside the fort's gates lay in wait for anyone who