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Soldier Blue is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ralph Nelson released in USA on 12 august 1970 with Candice Bergen
Soldier Blue (1970)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 august 1970
Length 1h52
Directed by Ralph Nelson
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating68%
Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory. The screenplay was written by John Gay based on the novel Arrow in the Sun by Theodore V. Olsen (republished as Soldier Blue after the movie was released). It starred Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss and Donald Pleasence.
Synopsis
A young woman, Cresta Lee (Bergen), and young U.S. private Honus Gent (Strauss) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gent is devoted to his country and duty; Lee, who has lived with the Cheyenne for two years, declares that in this conflict she sympathizes more with them. The two must now try to make it to Fort Reunion, the army base camp, where Cresta's fiance, an army officer, waits for her. As they travel through the desert with very low supplies, hiding from the Indians, they are spotted by a group of Kiowa horsemen. Under pressure from Cresta, Honus fights and seriously wounds the group's chief. Honus finds himself unable to kill the chief, and the chief's own men stab him for his defeat and leave Honus and Cresta alone.Actors
Candice Bergen
(Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta')
Peter Strauss
(Honus Gent)
Donald Pleasence
(Isaac Q. Cumber)
Dana Elcar
(Capt. Battles)
Jorge Rivero
(Spotted Wolf)
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