The Horse Soldiers (1959)
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I don't think they would have kept the women alive after catching them listening in.
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After "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Holden would not appear in another major success until "The Wild Bunch" 12 years later.
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This recent article is worth reading, for a number of reasons:
John Wayne infuriated John Ford on Western set plagued with tragedyJohn Wayne couldn't stand John Ford on The Horse Soldiers set and begged the film's producer to lie to the director for him, enraging the filmmaker who found…www.express.co.uk -
"The Horse Soldiers" can't be compared with the Cavalry Trilogy. I think the main problem was the story was too far fetched.
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"The Horse Soldiers" was basically a good movie but could have done without the insipid love story...not realistic at all. Otherwise good performances and stuck pretty close to history in many ways even if fictionalized. It was a tragedy about Fred Kennedy's death...it was to be his last gag before retiring supposedly. John Ford pretty much lost interest in the movie after that occurred.
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"The Horse Soldiers" was basically a good movie but could have done without the insipid love story...not realistic at all. Otherwise good performances and stuck pretty close to history in many ways even if fictionalized. It was a tragedy about Fred Kennedy's death...it was to be his last gag before retiring supposedly. John Ford pretty much lost interest in the movie after that occurred.
There was no way the soldiers would have let the two women live.
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