Edgar Allan Pooh . . . is a Must-See for ALL Americans desiring entertaining insights into Trump World and the Citizens thereof. Anyone exposed to the six months of crazed "Lock Her Up !" chants will recognize the exact same emotion behind those Trump cheers as they witness the ancestors of these same Deplorables gleefully chortling in the guise of U.S. Servicemen beheading Cheyenne toddlers while waving the severed privates of their Daddies (not to mention slicing off Mommy's Mammaries, pictured 106 minutes into the fun of SOLDIER BLUE). Lawyers for Present-Day assault rifle-wielding U.S. Border Guards argued last week to the Supreme Court that it must remain Open Season on Mexicans INSIDE Mexico, stipulating that Real Live foreigners make for much better target practice than paper silhouettes at a shooting range. (Dozens have been murdered already, which number will surely skyrocket, given the shooting platforms of Trump's Towering Wall, observation balloons, and high-flying drones equipped with Hellfire Missiles; however, Mexicans situated in Mexico City on South are safe for the time being from being slain by fire across our "friendly" border). SOLDIER BLUE teaches viewers that "America First!" policies will "Make America Great Again" by continuing to eradicate any lingering remnants of Native Americans. This is why Trump emphasized his Executive Order to bull-doze through Indian Burial Grounds for the purpose of poisoning their remaining water supply with oil spills.

snicewanger Soldier Blue was another Anti US Military/Anti Viet Nam film made in the early 1970's, this time using the nineteenth century American Government's ethnic cleansing policies against the Native American Tribes of the Western Planes as a metaphor for The US Governments Southeast Asian Policy of the Viet Nam Era.The college anti war crowd had "Fallen in Love" with Native American Culture and Hollywood was looking to cash in on their new appreciation of the dark side of the winning of the American West. Soldier Blue is loosely based on the Sandcreek Massacre of 1863.The film purports to chronicle the events leading up the tragic incident as seen through the eyes of two white people. That is the big problem with the film.Other then the title song by Buffy Saint Marie there really isn't a whole lot of input from the Indians The Native Americans portrayed are still caricatures and little is revealed about their personalities and viewpoints other then they are the "Noble Savages" and are in need of the sympathetic guidance of the two racially sensitized Caucasians because they are not really sophisticated enough to understand whats going on.While the theme of the movie is certainly a laudable one, that's not enough.The script tries to be politically correct but comes off as condescending.The opening scene has Dana Elcar coming out of an outhouse which winds up being a telling image of story quality of the film itself It also is way too vague in it's historical reference. It has the Sandcreek tragedy happening in 1877 which is 14 years later then it really happened The two leads Candace Bergen as Cresta "Maribel" Lee and Peter Strauss as Honus Gent give weak performances that sink the story.Bergen was beautiful but had yet to find herself as an actress at that time and she plays her character as so smug and irritating that you hope somebody will shoot her.Strauss is totally forgettable as the whiny and unobservant Gent. Donald Pleasence gives some life to the proceedings with his characterization of Isaac Q Cumber but he is essentially playing the same sneaky, greasy bad guy he played in "Will Penny" and would play again in "Centennial".Possible SpoilerMuch has been made about the graphic attack on the Cheyenne village shown at the conclusion of Soldier Blue. It's extremely well executed...so to speak... and director Ralph Nelson did an outstanding job of visualizing the horror and the reality of the massacre and it's accurately depicted here. If the rest of Soldier Blue had been as well done as this particular episode in the movie, it would have been a classic film. As it is Soldier Blue is much more about the American political mindset of the 1970's then it is about the history of the American West in 1870's

kenjha This controversial Western was the first to portray white men as savages and Indians as peaceful. Bergen is lovely and effective as a white woman sympathetic to the Indians. Strauss is such an unbelievable wimp that he whines that Bergen is showing too much skin and gets freaked out when she snuggles up to him to keep warm. With most of the film playing like a romantic comedy, the shift to repellent violence in the last act is jarring. The previous year, "The Wild Bunch" had raised the bar on screen violence, but this film takes it to another level in depicting the massacre of women and children by the cavalry, a scene where everything is ridiculously exaggerated to make the point about white man's savagery.

euricosilvestre I first saw Soldier Blue some thirty five years ago, in a cheap exploitation theatre, and i was perhaps as shocked as the makers intended. I have distinct memories of leaving the theatre with an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Here was a film that not only didn't fear the displaying of extreme graphic violence, but indeed used it to the point of being exploitative.Perhaps some of the musical score, or the paralels with the Vietnam war are now dated, but generally it remains a powerful film that also makes you think.It is at this point that i must diverge with the great majority of the reviews here. Sometimes it seems like i have watched an entirely different film, for the film shows bluntly and brutally that the Native Americans were also capable of massacres or gang rapes, for instance. Not that it justifies genocide, but it is true nevertheless. They are not portrayed as the noble savages, that most people now like to consider them.Take the case of the Comanches, for instance. They came to the Southern plains from the north, and displaced and almost completely exterminated the plains Apaches. For two hundred years they raided Northern Mexico, and committed genocide over the population. The point is that seeing Native Americans merely as victims does not respect the historical truth. A film such as this one can make people see the bigger picture, and stop trying to rewrite History.