PHARAOH'S ARMY
DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND WRITTEN BY ROBBY HENSON
CICADA FILMS/ ITVS
Information from IMDb
Plot Summary
During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek
to a remote farm to steal enemy (Confederate) livestock.
The farm is wroked by Sarah Anders, whose husband is away fighting for the Confederate Army.
Far from the great armies and battlefields, a very private civil war erupts.
The Captain and Sarah are pulled apart by the war's undertow into choices
they can not fully control or understand.
Each character in this drama must decide whether loyalty will be paid in blood.
This story has a relevance to current partisan conflicts.
Armies are not filled with murdering psychopaths.
Good people can be driven to do bad things.
The story chronicles the pathology of war, how escalating events can trigger unasked-for tragedy.
Based on a true story about a southern child who shot and killed a union soldier during the Civil War.
Written by jstanley
Full Cast
Chris Cooper ... Captain John Hull Abston
Patricia Clarkson ... Sarah Anders
Kris Kristofferson ... Preacher
Robert Joy ... Chicago
Richard Tyson ... Rodie
Frank Clem ... Neely
Huckleberry Fox ... Newt
Will Lucas ... Boy
Mac Miles ... Israel
Robert E. Sampson ... Narrator
Maude Mitchell ... Preacher's Wife
Rebecca Ryland ... Mourner
Scott Coffman ... Mourner
Gale Wilson ... Mourner
Stacie Coffman ... Mourner
Leon Cain ... Mourner
Alvie Cox ... Mourner
Zach Lee ... Mourner
D.J. Wade ... Mourner
Margaret Ellis ... Mourner
Anne Hayden ... Mourner
Sarah Clay ... Mourner
Cameron Williams ... Mourner
Mary Ellis ... Mourner
Ellen Ellis ... Mourner
Paul Johnson ... Mourner
Margaret Abbott ... Mourner
Susan Coffman ... Mourner
Megan Shelby ... Mourner
Produced
Robby Henson .... producer
Tracy Kristofferson .... associate producer
Doug Lodato .... producer
Elizabeth Rodgers .... associate producer
Melissa Weisenberg .... line producer
Production Companies
Cicada Films
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Kentucky Educational Television
NEA
Sinkhole Productions Inc.
TMF Metro
Original Music
Vince Emmett
Trivia
The text at the end of film reads: "In 1941, a Kentucky mountaineer returned to a remote sinkhole,
the place where during the Civil War he had killed and buried a Union Soldier.
This film was inspired by his story as told to the folklorist Harry Caudill."
Original story took place at Meshack's Creek, Kentucky, in 1862; the town no longer exists.
Tompkinsville is the nearest town officially recognized by the US Postal Service, roughly 6 miles to the west of the creek.
The general area (Cumberland Gap), during the Civil War, experienced some of the most brutal clashes of the war;
not only battles, but brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor.
Filming Location
Kentucky, USA
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