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Soldier Blue is an American revisionist Western movie made in 1970 and directed by Ralph Nelson. It includes a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in the Colorado Territory.

It was written by John Gay based on the novel Arrow in the Sun by Theodore V. Olsen. It starred Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, and Donald Pleasence. The title song was performed by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

The movie was controversial at the time not only for its subject matter as a revisionist western, but for its graphic depiction of violence.

Released during the height of the Vietnam War against the backdrop of the courts martial stemming from the My Lai incident, it provided the first motion picture account of one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which United States cavalry troops massacred an undefended village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado eastern plains.

Nelson, who also appeared in the movie in a minor role, pushed the depiction of the violence to explicit levels, showing nudity during rape scenes, as well as "realistic" close-up shots of bullets ripping into flesh in a manner that anticipated later directors such as Quentin Tarantino.

The account of the massacre is fictionalized in the context of a longer story involving the escape of white survivors from an earlier massacre of cavalry troops by Indians.

Credits

Avco Embassy Pictures, 1970

Producer - Harold Loeb and Gabriel Katzka
Executive Producer - Joseph E. Levine
Director - Ralph Nelson
Screenplay - John Gay

Cast

Kathy Maribel Lee - Candice Bergen
Honus Gent - Peter Strauss
Isaac Q. Cumber - Donald Pleasence
Colonel Iverson - John Anderson
Spotted Wolf - Jorge Rivero
Captain Battles - Dana Elcar
Lieutenant McNair - Bob Carraway
Lieutenant Spingarn - Martin West
Private Menzies - James Hampton
Sergeant O'Hearn - Mort Mills
Running Fox - Jorge Russek
Indian Woman - Aurora Clavell
Agent Long - Ralph Nelson

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