Soldier blue is a 1970 american revisionist western film directed by ralph nelson and. Vhs trailer for the 1970 revisionist western soldier blue. With candice bergen, peter strauss, donald pleasence, john anderson. After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort. Soldier 1998 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It is supposed to be a proindian movie, and at the end the camera tells us the story was true, more or less, and that the army chief of staff himself called the massacre shown in the film one of the most shameful moments in american history.
It mystifies me why this isnt available on bluray in the us, but thats true of about other films as well. With michael dudikoff, caryhiroyuki tagawa, tyrin turner, jacqueline obradors. Soldier blue is a very good movie, showing the drama and realities of war following two lead characters through a story with a very bloody ending. Soldier blue is indeed savage, but it wears its clock of truth selfconsciously. This excessivelyviolent western centers on the brutal and inhuman acts performed upon the cheyenne by the cavalry in retaliation. Why, its ads asked, does soldier blue show, in the most graphic way possible, the rape and savage slaughter of american indians by american soldiers. So it was, and of course were supposed to make the connection with my lai and take soldier blue as an allegory for vietnam. Candice bergen is great as the rescued woman, and peter strauss warms my heart being this shy, stuck up. A soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers. I never really cared for the film, though, and seeing it.
A group of prisoners are going to vietnam to rescue the daughter of a vi. Olsen, it is inspired by events of the 1864 sand creek massacre in the colorado territory. Soldier blue 1970 candice bergen, donald pleasence trailer. For nelsons portrayal of the boys in blue as blood crazed maniacs, who blow childrens brains out and women, shattered for ever one of americas most. The film revolves around a group of convicts on a mission in vietnam to rescue the daughter of a rich man. Soldier blue 1970 candice bergen, donald pleasence trailer history, romance, western.
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