Soldier Blue 1970. 99% of all westerns that followed Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch in the early 70s followed the same path of realism with its gore and violence. That said the parallels with the Americans in Vietnam is very real and powerful.
It's not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, it looks so dated in its Technicolor blood fest and clumsy special effects.
Despite knowing of the film from my early teen years this was often spoken about for its depravity, how screwed up we kids were, despite probably none of us having never seen the film.
The two leads Peter Straus and a stunning Candice Bergen ( I hadn't realised women shaved their arm pits in the 1800s) are both great, but the star if the show is Donald Pleasence playing a gun seller, wearing a pair of false teeth which mirro Ken Dodds gnashers for their over bite. Marvellous stuff.
6/10.
It's not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, it looks so dated in its Technicolor blood fest and clumsy special effects.
Despite knowing of the film from my early teen years this was often spoken about for its depravity, how screwed up we kids were, despite probably none of us having never seen the film.
The two leads Peter Straus and a stunning Candice Bergen ( I hadn't realised women shaved their arm pits in the 1800s) are both great, but the star if the show is Donald Pleasence playing a gun seller, wearing a pair of false teeth which mirro Ken Dodds gnashers for their over bite. Marvellous stuff.
6/10.