Seminole is a 1953 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn and Richard Carlson.

[2] At Fort King, Florida, in 1835, Lieutenant Lance Caldwell is charged with the murder of a sentry.

The character of Major Harlan Degan is based on the real life General Thomas Jesup who eventually had to resign in disgrace over the incident.

The ambush in which Jesup and his men attempt to kill an encampment of Seminole while they're sleeping, only to find they've bayoneted bales of straw wrapped in blankets and disguised as sleeping people, is based on a real incident; Jesup attempted to ambush a Seminole encampment in between what is today Umatilla, Florida and Lake Yale and the Seminole carried out a counter-ambush in which Jesup was wounded, most of his men were killed and he was carried to safety (after being shot with an arrow) by two of his own soldiers.

The film was also considerably ahead of its time in its overwhelmingly sympathetic and realistic portrayal of the Seminole people.