Edgar Allan Pooh . . . is a Must-See for ALL Americans desiring entertaining insights into Trump World and the Citizens thereof. Anyone exposed to the six months of crazed "Lock Her Up !" chants will recognize the exact same emotion behind those Trump cheers as they witness the ancestors of these same Deplorables gleefully chortling in the guise of U.S. Servicemen beheading Cheyenne toddlers while waving the severed privates of their Daddies (not to mention slicing off Mommy's Mammaries, pictured 106 minutes into the fun of SOLDIER BLUE). Lawyers for Present-Day assault rifle-wielding U.S. Border Guards argued last week to the Supreme Court that it must remain Open Season on Mexicans INSIDE Mexico, stipulating that Real Live foreigners make for much better target practice than paper silhouettes at a shooting range. (Dozens have been murdered already, which number will surely skyrocket, given the shooting platforms of Trump's Towering Wall, observation balloons, and high-flying drones equipped with Hellfire Missiles; however, Mexicans situated in Mexico City on South are safe for the time being from being slain by fire across our "friendly" border). SOLDIER BLUE teaches viewers that "America First!" policies will "Make America Great Again" by continuing to eradicate any lingering remnants of Native Americans. This is why Trump emphasized his Executive Order to bull-doze through Indian Burial Grounds for the purpose of poisoning their remaining water supply with oil spills.

Wuchak Released in 1970 and directed by Ralph Nelson, "Soldier Blue" is a Western starring Peter Strauss and Candice Bergen as a soldier and Native sympathizer, the only two survivors of a cavalry group Massacred by the Cheyenne. As they travel together to get back to the soldier's unit he struggles with his affection for the woman and a revulsion for her anti-US government outlook. Then he sees the awful truth.This controversial Western showcases the atrocities of the US Army against Native Americans wherein the average US Cavalry solder is depicted as a shifty, droop-eyed, unwashed, stupid cracker idiot with flies buzzing around his head. The opening Indian attack is set in order to align the audience's sympathies with Honus (Strauss, the 'Soldier Blue' of the title), so that the viewer travels on the same journey as him, starting by regarding the Indians as murderous barbarians, and ending up forced to confront the idea that maybe his kin are just as barbaric when the occasion is 'right' (or, should I say, wrong).The final massacre is shocking, but hampered by the film's insistence on stacking the deck so completely in terms of depicting the US military as savages dripping with ee-vil. In other words, it loses its impact because it's so overdone.In reality, utterly barbaric attacks applied to both uncivilized Natives and the civilized Europeans, but more so with the former, which is documented. Since the 60s-70s there has been an overemphasis on the injustices committed by the US Army or settlers and we get a handful of examples: Wounded Knee, Bear River and Sand Creek (the latter being what "Soldier Blue" is based on). Yet we never hear the other side of what caused these events nor do we hear of the atrocities of Natives committed against New Americans. For instance, we never hear of the Dakota "War" of 1862 (Santee Sioux went on the war path and murdered between 600-800 white settlers, which constituted the largest death toll inflicted upon American civilians by an enemy force until 9/11), The Ward Massacre, The Nez Perce uprising which killed dozens of settlers in Idaho and Wyoming, and the Massacre at Fort Mims. We never hear of the countless innocent settlers who were murdered by roaming bands of young "warriors": While a chief was signing a peace treaty on the tribe's behalf they were out robbing, raping and murdering.I'm just saying that it's easy to be pro-Native sitting on the comfort of your sofa, but not so much when you and your loved ones are threatened with torture & slaughter.The Europeans wanted the Native's land and resources while the Indians wanted the technology of the Europeans. Both sides used treaties to make peace while still trying to get what they wanted when war was too expensive. Both sides made war when they felt no other option.I love Native American culture, but the whitewashing of Native atrocities and this revisionist history stuff is dishonest and unbalanced. "Soldier Blue" is guilty of this but, as a movie, it's entertaining and its message is necessary in light of all the movies that depict Indians as sub-human savages to be gunned down on the spot.The film runs 114 minutes and was shot in Mexico.GRADE: B

Kiz Whalifa Don't want to write to much. I cant give this movie lower than 7 because it shows how the west was really won and it accuses the patriarchal Americans of today. But it had 0 entertaining potential. I tried to sympathize with the protagonist but i really couldn't. Also the plot was really slow at times and sometimes i was close to fall asleep. But like i said the ending was great and i don't have any point of criticism concerning the acting. After all it was a pretty good movie, that sometimes annoyed the **** out of me. I still recommend it for people that want to see some sad true stuff about American history. ( sorry for my bad English )

Neil Welch I saw Soldier Blue several times at the cinema when it first came out, covered in notoriety, and have watched it a number of times since.The story is simple. A cavalry detail is wiped out by Indians. The only survivors are cavalryman Honus Gant (Peter Strauss) and "rescued" (from Indians) Cresta Maribel Lee (Candice Bergen). As they trek back to civilisation, encountering further Indians as well as creepy gunrunner Isaac Q Cumber (geddit?) (Donald Pleasance), they argue because Cresta seeks to challenge Honus' preconceptions of the Indians as murderous savages and, gradually, fall in love. When they finally reach the "civilisation" of a forward army camp, they are just in time to witness the horrific slaughter of a peaceful Indian settlement by the cavalry, making it clear to Honus (and the audience) that not only was the savagery far from one-sided, in the cavalry's case it was backed up by superior weaponry.The central section of the film, when Honus and Cresta are wandering through the wilderness enduring trials and falling in love, is thoughtful, eventful, gentle and exciting. But the raison d'etre of this movie - stated, if obliquely, in Buffy St Marie's opening theme song - is the massacre at the end, which is genuinely horrific (if rather dated in terms of special effects).The opening attack is set in order to align the audience's sympathies with Honus, so that we travel on the same journey as him, starting by regarding the Indians as murderous barbarians, and ending up forced to confront the idea that maybe it is we who are barbaric.Peter Strauss and Candice Bergen both give perhaps their best performances ever.An over-sensationalised and under-rated movie.