It looks like a bloodbath down there! What the hell is going on?" – Hugh Thompson (helicopter pilot hovering over My Lai) A couple hiking in the great outdoors being kidnapped by a sadistic thug and having to run for their lives The film "Soldier Blue" aired on BBC2, late at night on Friday 16th August, between 00:20 and 02:15 hours. The timeslot was kind of understandable, bearing in mind the ending, and the nature of the film itself.

Ulzana's Raid, a 1972 American revisionist western film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster. The film's one redeeming feature is that the scenery looks beautiful. All Westerns have beautiful scenery. You'd be better off with any one of the others. In the BBC's defence, though, it was a good clean print, and was almost in the right ratio, as far as I could tell. (The film appears to start in a hard-masked 2.35:1 ratio, before pulling out to its proper ratio of 1.85:1, which is what the BBC version did as well.)caught up with Soldier Blue on home video, I was disappointed. Although much of the material excised for the

Hurst, P.B. "The Most Savage Film: Reliving Soldier Blue". Cinema Retro . Retrieved December 27, 2017. 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. Recalling the film, star Candice Bergen commented that it was "a movie whose heart, if nothing else, was in the right place." [7] In culture [ edit ] Well, I'd actually quite like to get it on DVD, although I'm having problems locating a fully uncensored version. The German DVD release looks to run only 110 minutes, and is cut.

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). 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. An allegory to Vietnam specifically? More than that, an allegory of what the United States was born to be, where it was that it gave birth to itself, what it is supposed to do and what it actually does. America is a dream. When we wake up we are forced to deal with reality and the deeds of imperfect people, or remain sleeping -but, sometimes, reality catches-up with us whether we like it or not. Just had a response from Jon Mulvaney - the Customer Service guy from Criterion. Sadly, it's only a pre-generated reply.