She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
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During the Civil War, Colonel John Marlowe (John Wayne) is tasked with leading a Union cavalry division to raze a Confederate railroad depot.
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THE HORSE SOLDIERS was the only film that was devoted to a full study of the effect of the war in the South, on both Union and Rebel soldiers. While not, perhaps, the best that Ford could have achieved - he was in the twilight of his master career - it is a fine film none-the-less.
The Horse Soldiers is the disaster of the month, an uneventful canter in which Ford, without any plot to speak of, falls back on boyish Irish playfulness to fill a several-million-dollar...
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Previously issued on a MGM Blu-ray, The Horse Soldiers gets a significant upgrade via a 4K master that, among other things, presents the film in its correct 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Colors are deeper and textures are sharper throughout, though some interior shots show a softness in darker corners that can likely only be addressed by a restoration. The ...
Film historian and John Ford expert Joseph McBride contributes a new commentary for the film, and he brings his usual mix of deep research and engaging formal analysis to the enterprise. McBride particularly calls out how Ford’s lifelong interest in and extensive study of the Civil War contributed to this film’s blunt honesty about the conflict.
John Ford’s bitter Civil War action western The Horse Soldiersgets an improved home-video presentation and an excellent new commentary track from Kino Lorber.
The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in ...
Extract of a review from 1959. Running time: 120 MIN. With: John Wayne William Holden Constance Towers Althea Gibson Hoot Gibson Anna Lee. Give John Ford a company of brawny men, let him train...
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Underrated Civil War Western, leisurely and sometimes simplistic, but mostly quintessential Ford as Wayne's pragmatic colonel and Holden's humanitarian doctor debate (and embody ...
