The Horse Soldiers (1959)
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Genre
- drama film, Western film, war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 286 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Union cavalry regiment rides deep into Confederate territory during the Civil War to destroy a railroad junction. The hardened colonel and a doctor clash over the mission's harsh realities.
adventurousruggedtensenostalgicdramaticdeliberateearnestbittersweet
What happens
The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden, and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966) 1956 novel of historical fiction of the same name, a fictionalized version of the famous Grierson's Raid by federal cavalry in April–May 1863 riding southward through Mississippi and around the Mississippi River fortress of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign to split the southern Confederacy by Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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