Adapted by john gay from the novel arrow in the sun by t. A group of prisoners are going to vietnam to rescue the daughter of a vi. Soldier blue is a 1970 american revisionist western film directed by ralph nelson and starring candice bergen, peter strauss, and donald pleasence. 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. Soldier boyz is a 1995 action film directed by louis mourneau and starring michael dudikoff.
Soldier blue 1970 candice bergen, donald pleasence trailer history, romance, western. Nelson and gay intended to utilize the narrative surrounding the sand creek massacre as an allegory. It is historical in nature about the sand creek massacre but built around a storyline. Soldier blue is indeed savage, but it wears its clock of truth selfconsciously. With michael dudikoff, caryhiroyuki tagawa, tyrin turner, jacqueline obradors. Vhs trailer for the 1970 revisionist western soldier blue. Without question, in its unedited form, soldier blue is one of the most upsetting and violent films of all times, perhaps even the most violent. This excessivelyviolent western centers on the brutal and inhuman acts performed upon the cheyenne by the cavalry in retaliation. It mystifies me why this isnt available on bluray in the us, but thats true of about other films as well.
With kurt russell, jason scott lee, jason isaacs, connie nielsen. 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. 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. For nelsons portrayal of the boys in blue as blood crazed maniacs, who blow childrens brains out and behead women, shattered for ever one of americas most. Soldier blue 1970 candice bergen, donald pleasence trailer. I never really cared for the film, though, and seeing it. 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. 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. With candice bergen, peter strauss, donald pleasence, john anderson. The film revolves around a group of convicts on a mission in vietnam to rescue the daughter of a rich man.
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