Major Dundee Filming Locations
Where was Major Dundee filmed? Major Dundee was filmed in 20 locations across Mexico in the following places:
Major Dundee Filming Locations
Durango is the capital city of the state of Durango, in Mexico. It’s known for its historic center, with important colonial and Mexican baroque buildings. Begun in 1695, the ornate Cathedral Basilica has sacred art and carved wooden interiors. Exhibits trace the city’s history at Museo de la Ciudad 450, in a converted palace. Bebeleche is a modern museum with interactive displays on science and culture.
Mexico City is the densely populated, high-altitude capital of Mexico. It's known for its Templo Mayor (a 13th-century Aztec temple), the baroque Catedral Metropolitana de México of the Spanish conquistadors and the Palacio Nacional, which houses historic murals by Diego Rivera. All of these are situated in and around the Plaza de la Constitución, the massive main square also known as the Zócalo.
Guerrero is a state on Mexico's Pacific coast. The resort city of Acapulco, set on a large bay backed by high-rises and the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, is known for its high-energy nightlife and beaches along Acapulco Bay and the Acapulco Diamante area. Performers dive daily from iconic La Quebrada cliff into a small cove. The hilltop Fuerte de San Diego, a fort with a history museum, overlooks the old town.
Monterrey, capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, is a sprawling business and industrial center fringed by mountains. It’s overlooked by the Palacio del Obispado, a storied Baroque palace with a regional museum. Downtown lies the Macroplaza, a vast green area of connected squares home to the striking Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and the Faro de Comercio tower, which beams green lasers into the sky.
Bavispe is a small town and a municipality in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Sonora.
Chilpancingo de los Bravo is the capital and second-largest city of the Mexican state of Guerrero. In 2010 it had a population of 187,251 people. The municipality has an area of 2,338.4 km² in the south-central part of the state, situated in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, on the bank of the Huacapa River.
Cuautla is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. It's noted for its rich war history. The Museo Histórico de Cuautla has displays on revolutionary leaders Emiliano Zapata and José María Morelos y Pavón. Southwest is the Ex-hacienda de Chinameca, where Zapata was ambushed and killed in 1919. His remains are buried in the Plaza de la Revolución del Sur. El Almeal and Agua Hedionda are natural hot springs.
Tlayacapan is the name of a town and a municipality located in the northeast part of Morelos state in central Mexico. It is located 60 km east from the state capital of Cuernavaca and about 1.5 hours south of Mexico City.
Major Dundee (1965)
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.