Soldier Blue

After a convoy and its U.S. cavalry escort are attacked by Cheyenne Native Americans, only Private Honus Gant (Peter Strauss) and a young woman under the cavalry’s protection (Candice Bergen) survive.

Forced to travel across the American frontier’s unforgiving wilderness in search of refuge, their journey reaches a tragic climax as they witness the vengeful U.S. army’s cold-blooded slaughter of the Cheyenne tribe.

AroView: Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the revisionist Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between US cavalry and ‘Indians’ also works in a Vietnam War context.

“Must be numbered among the most significant, the most brutal and liberating, the most honest American films ever made.” ~Dotson Rader, The New York Times