Soldier Blue (1970)

Soldier Blue (1970) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ralph Nelson

Written By:
Theodore V. Olsen
John Gay

Actors:
Candice Bergen ..... Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta'
Peter Strauss ..... Honus Gent
Donald Pleasence ..... Isaac Q. Cumber
John Anderson ..... Col. Iverson
Jorge Rivero ..... Spotted Wolf
Dana Elcar ..... Capt. Battles
Bob Carraway ..... Lt. McNair
Martin West ..... Lt. Spingarn
James Hampton ..... Pvt. Menzies
Mort Mills ..... Sgt. O'Hearn
Jorge Russek ..... Running Fox
Aurora Clavel ..... Indian woman (as Aurora Clavell)
Ralph Nelson ..... Agent Long (as Alf Elson)

Synopsis:

This excessively violent western finds Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen) and US Army Private Honus Gant (Peter Strauss) the only survivors of an Indian massacre. The two live with the Cheyennes for two years before they manage to escape. Isaac Cumber (Donald Pleasence) is the white trader who sells guns to the Indians. Cresta tries to warn the tribe that they will be massacred by the soldiers. When the Indians try to surrender, their pleas for mercy are ignored. Women are raped, children are killed and the entire village is burned to the ground. The film tries to draw parallels between the war in Vietnam and the extermination of the Indians a century earlier. There is no middle ground or shades of gray as the Indians are portrayed as good and the soldiers as bad. The original R rating was later changed to PG, but this film is as violent as they come.

While riding through the Cheyenne territory transporting a safe to Fort Reunion and protecting the white woman Cresta Marybelle Lee, who had lived in a Cheyenne village for two years and sympathize with them, the twenty-two men of the cavalry are attacked by the Indians. Only Cresta and the naive, idealistic and clumsy private Honus Gent survive, and together they walk to Fort Reunion, where Cresta is supposed to meet her fiancé Lieutenant McNair. Along their journey, Honus protects Cresta against Kiowa Indians, destroys the shipment of a trader of weapons and falls in love for Cresta, but he does not believe in Cresta words that the Cheyenne village is peaceful. When the cavalry attacks, he witnesses the hideous massacre of five hundred peaceful Cheyenne, more than half composed of women and children, and realizes that Cresta was telling the truth.

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American beliefs. They reach the cavalry campsite on the eve of an attack on a Cheyenne village, where Honus will learn which side has really been telling him the truth.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 September, 2011.

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