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Soldier Blue

Name: Soldier Blue
Genre: Western, Drama
Released: 1970-08-12
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 6.775

★ 6,8 /10 (229 Votes)

1970 EN 115 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

12/08/1970

Votes

229

Popularity

4.6

The most savage film in history!

Genres

Western Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

115 min

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

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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

Ralph Nelson

Agent Long

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Marco Antonio Arzate

Kiowa Warrior (uncredited)

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Barbara De Hubp

Mrs. Long (uncredited)

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Ron Fletcher

Lt. Mitchell (uncredited)

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Alfredo Tarzan Gutiérrez

Kiowa Indian (uncredited)

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Conrad Hool

Lieutenant (uncredited)

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Lance Hool

Guard (uncredited)

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Nicolás Jasso

Kiowa Indian (uncredited)

Eddie Little Sky

Indian Scout (uncredited)

Raúl Martínez

Kiowa Indian (uncredited)

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Jose Salas

Kiowa Indian (uncredited)

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Isabel Vázquez

Old Indian Woman (uncredited)

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The R-rated cut of SOLDIER BLUE (1970) contains 100 minutes of a G-rated romance, bookended by 15 minutes of graphic, blood-soaked atrocities. Director Ralph Nelson doesn't pull any punches; disfigurement, immolation, decapitation, and impalement (amongst other acts of barbarity) splash across the screen - often in Sam Peckinpah-style slow motion. These opening and closing scenes have power; the problem is the 100 minutes we have to spend with the one-dimensional survivors of the initial Indian assault. Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss are given generic, facile characters to interpret; one is …

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**_Playful Western Romance sandwiched between two brutal massacres_** After a paymaster cavalry unit is slaughtered by the Cheyenne in 1877, a surviving soldier and Indian sympathizer team-up to get back to the nearest fort (Peter Strauss and Candice Bergen). The young man struggles with contempt for what he considers a treasonous attitude along with his growing affection for the brash woman. Then he sees the awful truth firsthand. "Soldier Blue" (1970) is an entertaining, but odd Western. At heart, it’s a fun romance between a patriotic military man and a profane “free-spirit” who is ab…

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