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Soldier Blue | 
 enlarge | Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, James Hampton, Mort Mills
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 24523
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED20569D
UPC: 012236205692
EAN: 0012236205692
ASIN: B000ION22Q
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Release Date: December 12, 2006
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Product Description
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg
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 A Disturbing Western October 10, 2008
Michael B. Druxman (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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SOLDIER BLUE (1970) was made during an era when Hollywood was redefining its view of Native Americans.
After years of showing Indians as blood-thirsty savages, hit movies like LITTLE BIG MAN and A MAN CALLED HORSE presented these people as relatively peaceful "human beings," and the white man as the villain.
As its climax, director Ralph Nelson's SOLDIER BLUE gave us a brutal, slightly fictionalized account of the infamous Sand Creek massacre, in which a group of Colorado militia slaughtered a village of over 150 peaceful Cheyenne, mostly women and children.
Candice Bergen stars in this superb, disturbing film as a "rescued" white woman who has lived with the Cheyenne for two years and has come to understand them. Peter Strauss co-stars as a young soldier who, with her, is the only survivor when Cheyenne warriors slaughter the cavalry troop with which they are traveling. Together, they must make their way to safety.
Sand Creek is certainly one of the most shameful incidents in the history of the United States. Its depiction here is not easy to watch.
Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
UNCUT WIDESCREEN October 2, 2008
Larry Melton (detroit michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i just watched the lionsgate
widescreen dvd of solider blue
this was in widescreen 16/9 and this is as close to the ful uncut movie as u will get
i recamend this to anyone who wants to see the uncut movie
 It's reputation exceedes the film itself July 27, 2008
Calvin Flowers (Detroit)
I sought out this movie based on a poster in a Quentin Tarantino film. I like things involving Native American culture and I like 70's flicks too, so I thought: "What a great combination?!" Unfortunately I got what I wished for. Don't get me wrong, this movie works in many ways for itself...I don't know really...I think what most got on my nerves was the campyness of it. Candice Bergen, although looking surprisingly sexy throughout, was REALLY annoying to me. -Her being so sassy for 90% of the film was one of the things that didn't work for me and the male lead was made to look like a complete pussy; another thing that didn't appeal to me.
Anyway, let me get down to what I did like: the score, cinematography, the excessive violence, and again; just the idea of this movie was good I thought. Again, Candice was looking smoking throughout.
Perfect if you wanted to do a tough chick cinema night w/ 'Coffy'.
The picture and sound of the DVD was awesome. No extras from what I remember. Not worth buying in my opinion but if you can rent it, I'd say it's worth it.
Great, and timely docudrama July 3, 2008
Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I first saw this film while I was a college freshman, and at the time volunteering to tutor Indian kids in central Wisconsin. Another reviewer referred to it as an "anti-Vietnam War" film. It was that only in that it was timely, i.e., while we heard that the great US forces were freeing the Vietnamese peasants from commie tyranny, we were actually slaughtering them.
The story is based on a novel. That, in fact, is why I can only give it four stars. It's about the Sand Creek massacre, one of many slaughters of the red man, that occured in the 1860s. Many have challenged the historical accuracy of the story. I reiterate, it's based on a novel. But novels can be based predominantly on fact.
"Conventional wisdom," a leading myth of the American mind, has been that everything we do is benevolent. We were making the lives better for the Indians when we took over their land, we did the same in Vietnan--that mythology extends to what we're doing in the Middle East today! But the reality is very different.
Sure there are weaknesses of the story. If you're looking for historical accuracy, you'll find more in this than you will with most "war movies." Yet all leave something to be desired.
At the risk of being labeled and "American hater," I'll point out that this film's story needed/needs to be told. That's why I recommend it so strongly. In short, we're not as benevolent as we'd like to think.
The acting was great, the story not for the weak of stomach. But see it if you want the less conventional view of how we really "moved West," and why the US is challenged as a purveyor of "democracy."
Native american history July 3, 2008
Linda Jacobsson (Sweden)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Soldier Blue is one of my favorite western, Indian films of all time. The story is basically about a soldier that is very devoted to his duties. He meets a woman with a totally different view of things. He later discovers that things not always are in black or white.
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