Soldier Blue

Soldier Blue

Infobox Film | name = Soldier Blues


caption = original film poster
director = Ralph Nelson
producer = Gabriel Katzka
Harold Loeb
writer = Theodore V. Olsen (novel "Arrow in the Sun")
John Gay (screenplay)
starring =Candice Bergen
Peter Strauss
Donald Pleasence
music = Roy Budd
cinematography = Robert B. Hauser
editing =
distributor = AVCO Embassy Pictures
released = August 12, 1970 (New York City)
runtime = 112 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0066390

"Soldier Blue" is an American Revisionist Western movie made in 1970 and directed by Ralph Nelson, telling a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory.

It was written by John Gay based on the novel "Arrow in the Sun" by Theodore V. Olsen, and starred Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. The title song was performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Plot

Released during the height of the Vietnam War against the backdrop of the courts martial stemming from the My Lai massacre, it provided the first motion picture account of one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which Colorado state militia troops under Colonel John M. Chivington massacred an undefended village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado eastern plains.

The account of the massacre is fictionalized in the context of a longer story involving the escape of white survivors from an earlier massacre of U.S. Cavalry troops by Indians. The names of all real person characters were also changed.

Controversy

The movie was controversial at the time not only for its subject matter as a revisionist western, but for its graphic depiction of violence. Nelson, who also appeared in the movie in a minor role, pushed the depiction of the violence to explicit levels, showing nudity during rape scenes, as well as "realistic" close-up shots of bullets ripping into flesh.

It also contains a mildly-risqué scene in which Bergen's character reveals that under her self-made red dress she wears no underwear.

Credits

Avco Embassy Pictures, 1970

* Producer - Harold Loeb and Gabriel Katzka
* Executive Producer - Joseph E. Levine
* Director - Ralph Nelson
* Screenplay - John Gay
* Music - Roy Budd

Cast

* Cresta Maribel Lee - Candice Bergen
* Honus Gantz - Peter Strauss
* Isaac Q. Cumber - Donald Pleasence
* Colonel Iverson - John Anderson
* Spotted Wolf - Jorge Rivero
* Captain Battles - Dana Elcar
* Lieutenant McNair - Bob Carraway
* Lieutenant Spingarn - Martin West
* Private Menzies - James Hampton
* Sergeant O'Hearn - Mort Mills
* Running Fox - Jorge Russek
* Indian Woman - Aurora Clavell
* Agent Long - Ralph Nelson

External links

*imdb title|id=0066390|title=Soldier Blue
*"The Most Savage Film: Soldier Blue, Cinematic Violence and the Horrors of War," by P.B. Hurst


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