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.
Candice Bergen
as Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta'
Peter Strauss
as Honus Gent
Donald Pleasence
as Isaac Q. Cumber
John Anderson
as Col. Iverson
Jorge Rivero
as Spotted Wolf
Dana Elcar
as Capt. Battles
Bob Carraway
as Lt. McNair
Martin West
as Lt. Spingarn
James Hampton
as Pvt. Menzies
Mort Mills
as Sgt. O'Hearn
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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 s...
Wuchak
**_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...