I watch a lot of westerns and was quite suprised to come across this Peckinpah western which I hadn't heard of.
It's certainly a pretty decent western, with the invovlement of big stars James Caab Slim Pickens, Michael Anderson and. Tom Tryon. The film takes a different tack in depicting a company training in the US cavalyr, from start to seeing combat. It covers the training aspects, drama around ego and disputes within the military. There is a romance sub plot which writers basically almost have to include, which isn't too bad but perhaps a bit obvious.
The film contains some of the best, and probably most realistic battle sequences. The plot and perhaps the choice of actors misses the mark a little bit, but I would definitely put this on the list of great cavalry westerns, along with "She wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "The Horse Soldiers".
Interesting to note, the movie basically revolves around the real life circumstances of Custer's last stand - it was originally meant to deal with the topic, but another movie covering Custer was released at the same time, so the characters names were changed to be fictitious.
A very underrated film worthy of note.
It's certainly a pretty decent western, with the invovlement of big stars James Caab Slim Pickens, Michael Anderson and. Tom Tryon. The film takes a different tack in depicting a company training in the US cavalyr, from start to seeing combat. It covers the training aspects, drama around ego and disputes within the military. There is a romance sub plot which writers basically almost have to include, which isn't too bad but perhaps a bit obvious.
The film contains some of the best, and probably most realistic battle sequences. The plot and perhaps the choice of actors misses the mark a little bit, but I would definitely put this on the list of great cavalry westerns, along with "She wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "The Horse Soldiers".
Interesting to note, the movie basically revolves around the real life circumstances of Custer's last stand - it was originally meant to deal with the topic, but another movie covering Custer was released at the same time, so the characters names were changed to be fictitious.
A very underrated film worthy of note.