They did indeed used to do that to the rails of the tracks they were destroying. During “Sherman’s March To The Sea”…they destroyed so many rails that they were called “Sherman’s Neckties”
My family are a pioneer family in Natchez, Mississippi. Some of the movie was filmed in and around Natchez. My cousin worked for the local telephone company at the time. The actors, John Wayne and William Holden and others stayed in a motel in Natchez during the filming. Each night John Wayne would call home to Calif. to talk to his family. . In those days you had to go through a long distance operator to call. As the call was being put thru Wayne would talk to the operator. Every night another girl (operator) would hope she would be the one to take his call. At the end of the filming Wayne had the motel put on a big banquet for all the young women at the phone company he spoke with, they had a nice dinner with drinks and he signed autographs and took photo's with them. Years later my wife and I stayed in the "'John Wayne room" in that Natchez motel. Incidentally, My 2 times Grandfather and his brothers were in the 33rd. Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War. The raid on "Newton Station" in the movie was based on the famous Grierson Raid. in Brookhaven, Miss. My GGgranfather was hurt in that raid.
The scenes at the "Jefferson Military Academy were filmed at an actual military school in Louisiana. The boys shown were the actual students of the school. I bet they had the time of their lives.
The doctors friend with the one arm was the one who alerted the Confederate troops who had arrived on the train . The US Colonel asked where he was captured & the trooper answered at the telegraph office
OMG - I LOVE YOU FOR AGREEING TO REACT TO THIS! I grew up with my dad's mom in the house with us. Rest your soul grandma! So I grew up with John Wayne movies and love them. This is such a good movie and with him and William Holden - the second biggest draw of the 1950s, or at least one of the top actors for sure, this was a hugely popular movie at the time!
The original screenplay had the Union cavalry making it to Baton Rouge, but one of the director's favorite stunt men, Fred Kennedy, was killed during the charge across the bridge. As scripted Hanna ran up to him to comfort him, but she found him struggling breathing from a broken neck. The Director, John Ford, was devastated that he died and finished the movie at the bridge rather than filming longer including their arrival at Baton Rouge.
Thank you for the respectful review. This is one of my favorite movies from the 1950s, and one of the few John Wayne movies I like. The movie adding the medical doctor has a kind of anti-war element to it, which makes it more complex than most John Wayne war movies.
The military school cadets going to battle was also based loosely on when the Virginia Military Institute Cadets participated in the Battle of New Market. Although that happened half a continent away and a year later than Grierson's raid.
The reasons the Confederate Soldiers new they were in town was because the officer with one arm was in the telegraph office. The telegraph was the 1st major way to translate messages over long distances. How it worked was a wire would connect each office and a messages was conveyed in Moores Code.
John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950) is kind of a bookend to this film, since Calvary Officer John Wayne is estranged from his Southern wife, Maureen O’Hara, due to his actions against the South during the Civil War.
I'm impressed. Not alot of young people will watch John Wayne. I grew up in the 1960s and never missed a Duke film. Great entertainment and story about American history and the winning of the West.
Another bit of trivia - Corporal Wilkie (the one near the beginning with the guitar you didn't know if he was speaking or singing) was played by Ken Curtis, who got his start as a musician. Among the acts with which he was associated were the Tommy Dorsey Band and the Sons of the Pioneers. He pops up occasionally in old movies and people get that nagging feeling they're supposed to know who he is. It would be easier to figure out if he wasn't clean-shaven. He is the actor that played the "scruffy, cantankerous, and illiterate" deputy Festus Haggen for 11 years on Gunsmoke.
My grear great grandfather was wounded in the leg at the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, and was lucky to keep his leg. He limped all his life, though
I saw this movie with my family and some friends from the neighborhood at the LeJune Road Drive In Theater in Miami, Florida. This brings back some great memories. Good pick Larissa.😊
I think this film is underrated. It uses the wide expanse of the Civil War to really focus in on where trust begins. Nearly every scene is adversarial evoking intimate battle vs. wartime battle and honestly director John Ford frames these moments cinematically in both regards with poetic care where the visuals reveal what's really happening. Really great reaction. Thank you for watching it and commenting on it.
Great review!! One thing about the Horse Soldiers is the history has a bit of 1950s shading to it. It is based on the real raid, but the clothing of the union soldiers and weaponry was more from the classic images of the Calvary from the 1870s and 1880s years after the war. Plus some of the scenes are dramatized to the 1950s standards. The cadets charge that is based on the VMI cadets at cedar mountain in Virginia. If you want to see an interesting and rather historically accurate watch- The Field of Lost Shoes- here on RUclips really a great movie on the civil war and a slice of the war few know about. If you do please do a reaction it would be great to see on that movie. Looking forward to more
@@mwhyte1979 yeah I got the battles mixed up. Thanks for correcting me. I kept thinking cedar mountain didn't sound correct, but couldn't think of new market.
John Ford employed actors soley on their looks and their presence. Even hand picking the extras. When watching a preview of Howard Hawk's 'Red River' 1948, also starring John Wayne, he famously remarked "Why the lousy bastard, he never told me he could act." The only thing Ford indulged Wayne with was allowing him to do bits of business with his hands, hence the scene with the tumblers.
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for our liberty with treasure, blood, and toil; And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star.
Much of this was filmed in and around our area, Natchitoches (Nack-it-tish) Parish, Louisiana. Other movies made around here are "Steel Magnolias" and "Man in the Moon".
Constance Towers appeared in another John Ford movie 'Sergeant Rutledge.' She was also married to the impossibly good looking actor John Grant. He appeared in Douglas Sirk's last two movies 'A Time to Love and a Time to Die' and a remake of 'Imitation of Life.' If you want to watch a feel good comedy, you couldn't do better than Douglas Sirk's 'Has Anybody Seen my Girl?' It's available on RUclips.
The doctor…William Holden was one of the better actors in the fifties and sixties…academy award…good looking…rugged…great voice…and I heard he was from a well to do family and drifted into acting…academy award for stalag 17…should have won for The Bridge on the River Kwai…in 1957…2 years before this movie…
Riding 30-40 miles a day is a lot…with slower wagons in the back…and is pretty much based on fact…this raid happened and school boys were used to do what they could…to fight or slow down the Union Cavalry…the regimental surgeon had a thought job…if you got shot in the leg…if you didn’t get medical attention right away…the leg was getting cut off…gangrene sets in…arm or leg…that is why doctors were called sawbones…a tragic chapter in American history…
Very enjoyable "first time reaction" to a film that, I guess, mostly reserved to aging boomers such as myself [ I hope I'm wrong]: I found an original vinyl soundtrack from "The Horse Soldiers" at a local thrift store in perfect condition just a few weeks ago and it's great to listen to!
Did you notice at the end when the Southern commander told the doctor that their doctor would give them a hand, no one came to help. Everyone just rode on by.
The guy with out the arm managed to get a telagraph off before he was captured, that’s how the confederates knew he was there and sent troops It took twenty seconds for a soldier to to reload during that war. So if you could rush your men quickly across the killing field you could come to fight with the enemy holding a position Trouble was by 1863 the union cavalry were seemed with Spencer rifles that could fire seven times without reloading and reloaded in ten seconds The confederate generals hadn’t adapted to that yet and still rushed cavalry positions often getting slaughtered
Many of the oddities you noticed during the fighting and elsewhere had to do with self-censorship during the middle of the twentieth century. Know as the "Hays Code", from 1934 to 1968 most American studios followed a list forbidden taboos and an even longer list of subjects suggested to avoid.
Not his best, but this movie is directed by John Ford, the GOAT, won more Oscar's than any director ever. He made John Wayne a star. So many great movie of his to choose from, but here's a few-- The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach and How Green Was My Valley.
Een zeer mooie film, gebaseerd op een waar verhaal is: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Hoofdrollen worden gespeeld door Ingrid Bergman en Curd Jürgens. Een in woord: Schitterend Het verhaal speelt in China voor de WWII.
There are several books in print about Grierson’s Raid,and I recommend you read about it, the true events are much more entertaining. Among the inaccuracies in this film, Andersonville had not yet been opened at this point in the war, and was for enlisted prisoners only. Officers were housed in relatively more humane conditions in large cities. Dr. Kendall would likely have been taken to Richmond. In fact, through much of the war prisoners were exchanged or released on parole (which meant they couldn’t go back to the military, although that was often ignored). In late 1863 through 1864 the practice was stopped, mostly over issues relating to black troops. It was resumed in 1865. Andersonville opened in 1864 to house prisoners who could no longer be exchanged, and was drastically overcrowded and under-supplied. How much of that resulted from cruelty and how much from Confederate poverty is still debated. Henry Wirz does have defenders, even now.
Another John Wayne movie based loosely on actual events is They Were Expendable. The History Guy has a video about Torpedo Squadron 3 which is the basis for the movie.
It's not all that loose. I once came across a copy of the book. It is nothing more than a transcript of an extended interview with the actual officers the main characters are based on. They describe most of the events in the movie. The romance with the nurse is entirely fictional, most of the rest is pretty accurate.
THE BEST OF THE PART WAS HOW EVERYONE CHANGED THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE TO THE WOMAN HAVING HATE REPLACED WITH FEELING OF FONDNESS & LOVE FOR JOHN WAYNE AND THE OTHER UNION SOLDIERS. THE FILM CAPTURED HOW DIVISIVE THE WAR WAS FOR AMERICA. A MASTERPIECE IN CINEMA. 😊
I always thought this was a good movie…the guy wanting to run for office…was in a lot of later John Wayne movies was in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..and was the military court judge in Sergeant Rutledge…but like everyone,else…I liked your interpretation of this one…you are smart…
Good reaction, some other good movies with these actors or about the civil war: John Wayne - the searchers William Holden (the Dr): Stalag 17 Civil war movie: Gone with the wind
Telegraph is a form of communication..50 years before wide spread use of telephones…telegraph lines connected the old west…like cell phones…and the Confederate colonel called the nearest town asking for help …
When the civil war started…the north had bigger cities…more people and factories…the south was growing things..factories not so much…a lot of cotton for making clothes…so the north had more men for the armies…and not enough men is one reason they couldn’t go on…and sometimes….it’s just geography…one side didn’t know where the other side was…that is how Gettysburg happened….they ran into each other in Pennsylvania…
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em No, they had been married since before the war. They were estranged, but still married, because he had been forced to burn her plantation during Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.
The soldier who were starved at Andersonville were killed because the CSA couldn’t feed them The north starved confederates on purpose No one hung the Union General for his war crimes
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl I would say worse, the CSA tried to give rations to prisoners on par with the soldiers in the field. They couldn’t, while Yankees starved in Andersonville confederates were starving in the army. The union starved their prisoners in the midst of plenty
@@jeffreyrobinson3555 yeah I didn't want to get that involved in the rations and supply lines. I was more into the play fair. But true the north had options, tbe CSA did not. But tbe cruelty on both sides was, I want to say inhuman but ~ sigh ~ I lived very close to Alton IL lots of Confederate ghosts I the town.. The north being the winners kind of left out a few parts as all winners do.
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl that's not true. The death rate in Confederate prisons was significantly higher than in Union prisons (17% to 14%, with Andersonville being MUCH worse than the average Confederate prison camp). And the Confederates DID have options -- they could have acknowledged that black soldiers were legitimate prisoners of war and exchanged them along with white prisoners, which would have freed men on BOTH sides from prison camps, but they refused to do so through 1863 and 1864 -- only in 1865 did the Confederates back down and agree to exchange black prisoners along with whites, allowing the exchange cartel to resume and prisoners on both sides to go free.
Isa the Civil war, Larissa, they did not use actual modern tactics then they just went after each other. having a defensive position was an advantage, the Union did the same crazy charge thing too.. Civil War Southern Cadets did fight in the war and they helped win the battle of Market Garden I think. Johnny wanted to be a hero, there is actually a 1960 I think song about it. The Cavalry pulls back because the element of surprise is gone. The fight with the academy kids is played for comic relief, in real life it was quite messy for both sides.
Far and away with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise actually there is history in the movie drama action romance epic movie does not get the respect it deserves
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I always thought this was a good movie…the guy wanting to run for office…was in a lot of later John Wayne movies was in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..and was the military court judge in Sergeant Rutledge…but like everyone,else…I liked your interpretation of this one…you are smart…
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They did indeed used to do that to the rails of the tracks they were destroying.
During “Sherman’s March To The Sea”…they destroyed so many rails that they were called “Sherman’s Neckties”
react rio bravo :)
My family are a pioneer family in Natchez, Mississippi. Some of the movie was filmed in and around Natchez. My cousin worked for the local telephone company at the time. The actors, John Wayne and William Holden and others stayed in a motel in Natchez during the filming. Each night John Wayne would call home to Calif. to talk to his family. . In those days you had to go through a long distance operator to call. As the call was being put thru Wayne would talk to the operator. Every night another girl (operator) would hope she would be the one to take his call. At the end of the filming Wayne had the motel put on a big banquet for all the young women at the phone company he spoke with, they had a nice dinner with drinks and he signed autographs and took photo's with them. Years later my wife and I stayed in the "'John Wayne room" in that Natchez motel. Incidentally, My 2 times Grandfather and his brothers were in the 33rd. Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War. The raid on "Newton Station" in the movie was based on the famous Grierson Raid. in Brookhaven, Miss. My GGgranfather was hurt in that raid.
The scenes at the "Jefferson Military Academy were filmed at an actual military school in Louisiana. The boys shown were the actual students of the school. I bet they had the time of their lives.
The woman playing Lucky is Althea Gibson. The first black female tennis star who won 11 Grand Slam titles.
Fun fact the actor who played Dunker the guy who's leg they cut off is actor Bing Russell. He is the father of actor Kurt Russell.
The two deserters at the barn are famous character actors Strother Martin and Denver Pyle.
One of my favorite John Wayne movies 😊
The doctors friend with the one arm was the one who alerted the Confederate troops who had arrived on the train . The US Colonel asked where he was captured & the trooper answered at the telegraph office
OMG - I LOVE YOU FOR AGREEING TO REACT TO THIS! I grew up with my dad's mom in the house with us. Rest your soul grandma! So I grew up with John Wayne movies and love them. This is such a good movie and with him and William Holden - the second biggest draw of the 1950s, or at least one of the top actors for sure, this was a hugely popular movie at the time!
Yeah Ms Hunter knew exactly which game she was playing with the officers.
Directed by John Ford, winner of four Oscars for best director.
Good reaction! My great great grandfather took part in Griesons raid. He was a sergeant in the union cavalry
6th Illinois Cavalry
The original screenplay had the Union cavalry making it to Baton Rouge, but one of the director's favorite stunt men, Fred Kennedy, was killed during the charge across the bridge. As scripted Hanna ran up to him to comfort him, but she found him struggling breathing from a broken neck. The Director, John Ford, was devastated that he died and finished the movie at the bridge rather than filming longer including their arrival at Baton Rouge.
Kennedy was the shorter of the two Troopers Wayne dressed down for peeking at Miss Hunter at the river!
I'm amazed that anyone even knows about this movie anymore.
It's a great movie about a "raid"
They found the one armed Colonel in the telegraph office when they arrived in Newton Station. He sent a telegraph to the next town asking for help 😊
Thank you for the respectful review. This is one of my favorite movies from the 1950s, and one of the few John Wayne movies I like. The movie adding the medical doctor has a kind of anti-war element to it, which makes it more complex than most John Wayne war movies.
The actor playing the doctor is William Holden. Horses are good swimmers.
I saw this movie at a drive in with my mom and dad when it came out in 1959, I’ve watched it a number of times since, one of my favorites
Me too, and My Mother went around singing the songs for years!!!!💞💞💞💞
Not Patreon but
The Wind and the Lion .
Is the greatest unknown movie ever.
I love that one. Along with The Man Who Would be King, my fave Sean Connery movies.
@@custardflan medicin man also,a good one of his
Based upon an actual Civil War event, Grierson's Raid.
The military school cadets going to battle was also based loosely on when the Virginia Military Institute Cadets participated in the Battle of New Market. Although that happened half a continent away and a year later than Grierson's raid.
Based very loosely.
The reasons the Confederate Soldiers new they were in town was because the officer with one arm was in the telegraph office. The telegraph was the 1st major way to translate messages over long distances. How it worked was a wire would connect each office and a messages was conveyed in Moores Code.
John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950) is kind of a bookend to this film, since Calvary Officer John Wayne is estranged from his Southern wife, Maureen O’Hara, due to his actions against the South during the Civil War.
I'm impressed. Not alot of young people will watch John Wayne. I grew up in the 1960s and never missed a Duke film. Great entertainment and story about American history and the winning of the West.
Great choice. Watch Rio Bravo soon.
Another classic!
Another bit of trivia - Corporal Wilkie (the one near the beginning with the guitar you didn't know if he was speaking or singing) was played by Ken Curtis, who got his start as a musician. Among the acts with which he was associated were the Tommy Dorsey Band and the Sons of the Pioneers. He pops up occasionally in old movies and people get that nagging feeling they're supposed to know who he is. It would be easier to figure out if he wasn't clean-shaven. He is the actor that played the "scruffy, cantankerous, and illiterate" deputy Festus Haggen for 11 years on Gunsmoke.
He got that job at Guns Smoke because of John Wayne. They were good friends and if you watch the movie credits he shows up in most of his movies
He was also John Ford’s Son in Law!
My grear great grandfather was wounded in the leg at the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, and was lucky to keep his leg. He limped all his life, though
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Great that young ppl these days still watch John Wayne movies! My hero, when I was a kid 50 years ago! 😉
The music theme for the lady is Lorena. My wife was named Lorena by her Arkansas mother!!
This is one of my favorite movies along with Bridges over Toko-Ri and Spartacus with Kirk Douglas ! Nice reaction thank you .
I saw this movie with my family and some friends from the neighborhood at the LeJune Road Drive In Theater in Miami, Florida. This brings back some great memories. Good pick Larissa.😊
I think this film is underrated. It uses the wide expanse of the Civil War to really focus in on where trust begins. Nearly every scene is adversarial evoking intimate battle vs. wartime battle and honestly director John Ford frames these moments cinematically in both regards with poetic care where the visuals reveal what's really happening. Really great reaction. Thank you for watching it and commenting on it.
You can see that William Holden would actually be someone capable of standing up to John Wayne
I love this film
Great review!! One thing about the Horse Soldiers is the history has a bit of 1950s shading to it. It is based on the real raid, but the clothing of the union soldiers and weaponry was more from the classic images of the Calvary from the 1870s and 1880s years after the war. Plus some of the scenes are dramatized to the 1950s standards.
The cadets charge that is based on the VMI cadets at cedar mountain in Virginia. If you want to see an interesting and rather historically accurate watch- The Field of Lost Shoes- here on RUclips really a great movie on the civil war and a slice of the war few know about. If you do please do a reaction it would be great to see on that movie. Looking forward to more
Good info, but the VMI cadets fought at the battle New Market, not Cedar Mountain.
@@mwhyte1979 yeah I got the battles mixed up. Thanks for correcting me. I kept thinking cedar mountain didn't sound correct, but couldn't think of new market.
@bryanhenchik6580 lot of folks can get confused, especially with all the fighting and skirmishes that went on around that area.
Mounted soldiers are cavalry. Calvary is the hill where Jesus was crucified.
@@odysseusrex5908 thanks, I was writing fast and missed that I misspelled it. Appreciate the assist
Good for you! This one rarely if ever gets a reaction.
Singing has always been and still is a part of the military.
One of my favorites scenes, that Holy Joe is no kid.
John Ford employed actors soley on their looks and their presence. Even hand picking the extras. When watching a preview of Howard Hawk's 'Red River' 1948, also starring John Wayne, he famously remarked "Why the lousy bastard, he never told me he could act." The only thing Ford indulged Wayne with was allowing him to do bits of business with his hands, hence the scene with the tumblers.
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil,
Fighting for our liberty with treasure, blood, and toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far,
Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star.
Interesting they changed the lyrics because of the times…from “Fighting For Our Property” (Slaves) to “Fighting For Our Liberty”!!!!!!
Much of this was filmed in and around our area, Natchitoches (Nack-it-tish) Parish, Louisiana. Other movies made around here are "Steel Magnolias" and "Man in the Moon".
Natchitoches lol big Jake
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl He was referring to Nagadoches, TX. They are considered sister cities.
@@firedoc5 watch the movie
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl I have, several times.
Interesting choice, Larissa. Well done 👏.
Constance Towers appeared in another John Ford movie 'Sergeant Rutledge.' She was also married to the impossibly good looking actor John Grant. He appeared in Douglas Sirk's last two movies 'A Time to Love and a Time to Die' and a remake of 'Imitation of Life.' If you want to watch a feel good comedy, you couldn't do better than Douglas Sirk's 'Has Anybody Seen my Girl?' It's available on RUclips.
The Famous Western Actor Hoot Gibson was also in this film as He Was An Old Friend of Ford’s!!!
Im a Duke fan big one!
My vote goes to McClintock. Love that one.
The doctor…William Holden was one of the better actors in the fifties and sixties…academy award…good looking…rugged…great voice…and I heard he was from a well to do family and drifted into acting…academy award for stalag 17…should have won for The Bridge on the River Kwai…in 1957…2 years before this movie…
I’m a big John Wayne fan, but Wayne couldn’t act to save his soul. However Holden was one of hollywoods best actors
Holden was terrific. Born Yesterday and Sabrina were two other excellent films he did, both more light-hearted than this was.
Riding 30-40 miles a day is a lot…with slower wagons in the back…and is pretty much based on fact…this raid happened and school boys were used to do what they could…to fight or slow down the Union Cavalry…the regimental surgeon had a thought job…if you got shot in the leg…if you didn’t get medical attention right away…the leg was getting cut off…gangrene sets in…arm or leg…that is why doctors were called sawbones…a tragic chapter in American history…
Very enjoyable "first time reaction" to a film that, I guess, mostly reserved to aging boomers such as myself [ I hope I'm wrong]: I found an original vinyl soundtrack from "The Horse Soldiers" at a local thrift store in perfect condition just a few weeks ago and it's great to listen to!
Did you notice at the end when the Southern commander told the doctor that their doctor would give them a hand, no one came to help. Everyone just rode on by.
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The guy with out the arm managed to get a telagraph off before he was captured, that’s how the confederates knew he was there and sent troops
It took twenty seconds for a soldier to to reload during that war. So if you could rush your men quickly across the killing field you could come to fight with the enemy holding a position
Trouble was by 1863 the union cavalry were seemed with Spencer rifles that could fire seven times without reloading and reloaded in ten seconds
The confederate generals hadn’t adapted to that yet and still rushed cavalry positions often getting slaughtered
Many of the oddities you noticed during the fighting and elsewhere had to do with self-censorship during the middle of the twentieth century. Know as the "Hays Code", from 1934 to 1968 most American studios followed a list forbidden taboos and an even longer list of subjects suggested to avoid.
One of my favourite John Wayne films. Take a look at Rio Bravo.
This is one of those movies with a cop-out ending. It's like dropping the last bite of your lunch.
How do you figure?
Not his best, but this movie is directed by John Ford, the GOAT, won more Oscar's than any director ever. He made John Wayne a star. So many great movie of his to choose from, but here's a few-- The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach and How Green Was My Valley.
Oscar's what? Oh, you meant Oscars.
@@odysseusrex5908 thanks typo nazi
I’m a nurse and work in critical care, and I’m here to tell you people rarely do what the doctor tells them
The last Confederate States of America Soldier died in 1951. 104 years old.
Een zeer mooie film, gebaseerd op een waar verhaal is:
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Hoofdrollen worden gespeeld door Ingrid Bergman en Curd Jürgens.
Een in woord: Schitterend
Het verhaal speelt in China voor de WWII.
There are several books in print about Grierson’s Raid,and I recommend you read about it, the true events are much more entertaining.
Among the inaccuracies in this film, Andersonville had not yet been opened at this point in the war, and was for enlisted prisoners only. Officers were housed in relatively more humane conditions in large cities. Dr. Kendall would likely have been taken to Richmond. In fact, through much of the war prisoners were exchanged or released on parole (which meant they couldn’t go back to the military, although that was often ignored). In late 1863 through 1864 the practice was stopped, mostly over issues relating to black troops. It was resumed in 1865. Andersonville opened in 1864 to house prisoners who could no longer be exchanged, and was drastically overcrowded and under-supplied. How much of that resulted from cruelty and how much from Confederate poverty is still debated. Henry Wirz does have defenders, even now.
Another John Wayne movie based loosely on actual events is They Were Expendable. The History Guy has a video about Torpedo Squadron 3 which is the basis for the movie.
It's not all that loose. I once came across a copy of the book. It is nothing more than a transcript of an extended interview with the actual officers the main characters are based on. They describe most of the events in the movie. The romance with the nurse is entirely fictional, most of the rest is pretty accurate.
THE BEST OF THE PART WAS HOW EVERYONE CHANGED THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE TO THE WOMAN HAVING HATE REPLACED WITH FEELING OF FONDNESS & LOVE FOR JOHN WAYNE AND THE OTHER UNION SOLDIERS. THE FILM CAPTURED HOW DIVISIVE THE WAR WAS FOR AMERICA. A MASTERPIECE IN CINEMA. 😊
Another great John Wayne movie to react to would be "The Quiet Man".
I always thought this was a good movie…the guy wanting to run for office…was in a lot of later John Wayne movies was in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..and was the military court judge in Sergeant Rutledge…but like everyone,else…I liked your interpretation of this one…you are smart…
Good reaction, some other good movies with these actors or about the civil war:
John Wayne - the searchers
William Holden (the Dr): Stalag 17
Civil war movie: Gone with the wind
No, you're right. They slowed down the song as an artistic way of showing they were tired and physically slowed down themselves.
Telegraph is a form of communication..50 years before wide spread use of telephones…telegraph lines connected the old west…like cell phones…and the Confederate colonel called the nearest town asking for help …
When the civil war started…the north had bigger cities…more people and factories…the south was growing things..factories not so much…a lot of cotton for making clothes…so the north had more men for the armies…and not enough men is one reason they couldn’t go on…and sometimes….it’s just geography…one side didn’t know where the other side was…that is how Gettysburg happened….they ran into each other in Pennsylvania…
But after the war, did Hannah and the Colonel get together?
Yes the implications are pretty strong. Remember in another Duke cavalry film, Rio Grande, he married a southern Belle after the Civil War.
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em No, they had been married since before the war. They were estranged, but still married, because he had been forced to burn her plantation during Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.
@@odysseusrex5908 thanks. Been awhile since I seen it.
Please consider reviewing the western, Shane, from the same time frame as The Horse Soldiers. Thx.
" Ding dong! Ding dong! " said " The Croaker ". - my favorite line in this movie
Andersonville prison was a nightmare for union soldiers. After the way the commandant of it was hung for war crimes
The soldier who were starved at Andersonville were killed because the CSA couldn’t feed them
The north starved confederates on purpose
No one hung the Union General for his war crimes
The Federals were NO better.
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl I would say worse, the CSA tried to give rations to prisoners on par with the soldiers in the field. They couldn’t, while Yankees starved in Andersonville confederates were starving in the army.
The union starved their prisoners in the midst of plenty
@@jeffreyrobinson3555 yeah I didn't want to get that involved in the rations and supply lines. I was more into the play fair. But true the north had options, tbe CSA did not. But tbe cruelty on both sides was, I want to say inhuman but ~ sigh ~
I lived very close to Alton IL lots of Confederate ghosts I the town..
The north being the winners kind of left out a few parts as all winners do.
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl that's not true. The death rate in Confederate prisons was significantly higher than in Union prisons (17% to 14%, with Andersonville being MUCH worse than the average Confederate prison camp). And the Confederates DID have options -- they could have acknowledged that black soldiers were legitimate prisoners of war and exchanged them along with white prisoners, which would have freed men on BOTH sides from prison camps, but they refused to do so through 1863 and 1864 -- only in 1865 did the Confederates back down and agree to exchange black prisoners along with whites, allowing the exchange cartel to resume and prisoners on both sides to go free.
If you like this you might also like She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, or The Searchers.
Rio Grande and Fort Apache.
Isa the Civil war, Larissa, they did not use actual modern tactics then they just went after each other. having a defensive position was an advantage, the Union did the same crazy charge thing too.. Civil War Southern Cadets did fight in the war and they helped win the battle of Market Garden I think. Johnny wanted to be a hero, there is actually a 1960 I think song about it. The Cavalry pulls back because the element of surprise is gone. The fight with the academy kids is played for comic relief, in real life it was quite messy for both sides.
Market Garden was WWII. It is dramatized in the movie, *A Bridge Too Far.* You are thinking of the Battle of New Market.
@@odysseusrex5908 , my bad they were both terrible days for going shopping So many young lives lost in both battles.
Should do Gettysburg 1993.
The Duke!!
Unfortunately the Film is Set in 1863 and Andersonville wasn’t opened until February 1864!🤔🤔
Welcome to American history :)
Far and away with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise actually there is history in the movie drama action romance epic movie does not get the respect it deserves
Almost forgot the actress’ name..Constance Towers..or something close…
There were young VMI cadets that were called up for the battle of New Market. Their charge actually won that battle for the confederates.
Yeah its a crazy story, i read all about it.
Watch “Gone with the Wind”
Really you don't want wounded or prisoners, it slows you down. Ideally get there, get the job done, and get home.
yeaa i'm going two pay you.
I thought I saw John Wayne
Blonde Natalie Merchant
Hostiles is another excellent movie....
It's typical Woke Hollywood propaganda
This seems a random choice
One of her Patreon supporters paid for this. It's $150, which to me, smacks of desperation on the subscriber's part.
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Please watch the movie,300, it's about the Spartan war very well made
John Wayne’s Character HATES doctors. Please stop talking, you miss 1/2 the dialogue.
=== CLASSIC MOVIE LIST American ==
IT'S a WONDERFUL LIFE (Christmas) Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed (1946) COLOR
CASABLANCA Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (1942)
ROBIN HOOD (in COLOR) Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (1938)
GRAN TORINO (2008) Clint Eastwood
QUEEN'S GAMBIT Anya Taylor-Joy (2020) mini series
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) musical
JAMES BOND Sean Connery - spy
JAMES BOND Daniel Craig - spy
THE RUSSIA HOUSE Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery (1990)
12 ANGRY MEN (1957) - crime
ARABESQUE Sophia Loren (1966)
TO CATCH A THIEF Cary Grant (1955)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST Cary Grant (1959)
SHERLOCK HOLMES (movie series) (1940's) Basil Rathbone -- crime detective
THE GREAT ESCAPE - World War 2 true story (1963)
TOMBSTONE Kurt Russell (true story western) (1993)
THE KING AND I (1956) Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner - musical
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2002)
ROCKY # 1 2 3 4 -- boxing with Sylvester Stallone
ROMAN HOLIDAY Audrey Hepburn (1953)
CHARADE Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant (1963)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Audrey Hepburn (1961)
SABRINA Audrey Hepburn (1954)
PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES Audrey Hepburn (1964)
FUNNY FACE Audrey Hepburn (1957)
OVERBOARD Kurt Russell and wife Goldie Hawn (1987) - comedy
SHANE Alan Ladd (1953) - western
MALTESE FALCON Humphrey Bogart (1941)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN Humphrey Bogart (1951)
ROMAN HOLIDAY Gregory Peck (1953)
ARABESQUE Gregory Peck (1966)
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH Gregory Peck (1949) - war
MOBY DICK Gregory Peck (1956)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Gregory Peck (1962)
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Charlton Heston as Moses (1956)
BULLET Steve McQueen (1968)
THE SAND PEBBLES Steve McQueen (1966) -- war
PAPILLON Steve McQueen (1973)
CLEOPATRA Elizabeth Taylor (1963)
TRAPEZE Burt Lancaster (1956)
THE PIANIST - war WW2 Jewish survivor true story Adrien Brody (2002)
GRAND PRIX James Garner (1966) -- car racing
MARLOWE James Garner (1969) -- crime
WINCHESTER '73 Jimmy Stewart (1950) - western
REAR WINDOW Jimmy Stewart (1954)
THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX Jimmy Stewart (1965)
HEAT OF THE NIGHT Sidney Potier and Rod Steiger (1967)
THE DEFIANT ONES Sidney Potier and Tony Curtis (1958)
LILLIES OF THE FIELD Sidney Potier (1963)
TO SIR WITH LOVE Sidney Potier (1967)
THE QUIET MAN John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (1952) comedy
THE SEARCHERS John Wayne (1956) - western
THE HORSE SOLDIERS John Wayne (1959) - western
SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON John Wayne (1949) - western
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE John Wayne (1962) - western
THE ALAMO John Wayne (1960) - western history
LINCOLN (2012) Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln last couple years in office, American Civil War
GORE VIDAL's LINCOLN (1988) Sam Waterston TV miniseries
American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - RUclips
American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 2) - RUclips
BEN-HUR Charlton Heston (1959) History Israel Rome
AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Charlton Heston (1965) story of Michelangelo
JOHN ADAMS Mini Series Paul Giamatti - American Revolution (2008) history
FATE IS THE HUNTER Glenn Ford (1964)
TERROR IN THE SKY Doug McClure (1971) - serious version of AIRPLANE comedy
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) musical
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) musical
MY FAIR LADY Audrey Hepburn (1964) musical
WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) musical
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) musical
SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) musical
THE KING AND I (1956) Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner - musical
MARY POPPINS (1964) musical
GREASE (1978) musical
WEST SIDE STORY Natalie Wood (1961) or (2021) musical
(1) STAR TREK MOVIES with CHRIS PINE as a younger James Kirk (2009, 2013, 2016)
(2) STAR TREK television ORIGINAL series (1966-1969) with WILLIAM SHATNER -- PATREON member poll to choose which TV episodes to watch
(3) STAR TREK MOVIES ORIGINAL = START with KHAN (1967) TV episode "SPACE SEED" with actor RICARDO MONTALBAN as (bad guy) KHAN
MOVIE # 2 - THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) (CONTINUES fifteen years later with RICARDO MONTALBAN as Khan)
- Star Trek MOVIE # 1, 3, 4 are good
- BAD MOVIE # 5 Star Trek The Final Frontier --- NOT good, STUPID
- MAYBE MOVIE # 6 Star Trek The Undiscovered Country
(4) NEXT GENERATION television (1987-1994 seven TV seasons) with PATRICK STEWART -- PATREON member poll to choose which TV episodes to watch
(5) NEXT GENERATION MOVIES (with Patrick Stewart)
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TARZAN (American TV television) with RON ELY (1966 - 1968) shows a modern Tarzan living in Africa and as a hero helping people.
TARZAN (American Movies) with JOHNNY WEISSMULLER (1932 - 1948) twelve movies -- A champion swimmer in the Olympics and National and World titles. He created the sound of the Tarzan yell
The first Johnny Weissmuller movie was TARZAN THE APE MAN (1932)
Tarzan is the story of a British baby (in Africa) whose parents had died, and he was rescued and raised by a group of gorilla apes. He did not meet people until he was a teenager.
His real name is John Clayton Greystoke and his parents were from a rich family. Later he meets and falls in love with a girl named Jane.
MODERN TARZAN American Movies -- Most later movies show Tarzan alone as the main character and hero of the story.
TARZAN GOES TO INDIA (1962)
TARZAN THREE CHALLENGES (1963)
TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD (1966)
TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER (1967)
TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE BOY (1968)
TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT (1960)
TARZAN AND THE TRAPPERS (1960)
GREYSTOKE THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES (1984)
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (2016)
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You listed The Wizard of Oz twice. The Chris Pine Star Treks and Daniel Craig James Bonds are terrible. It's a Wonderful Life is in black and white. If a colorized bastardization exists, all copies should be burned.
@@odysseusrex5908 I put in Wizard of Oz in a second time as a musical because most reviewers never know musicals ... I've seen some reviewers start with the more recent then older movies then have Patreon Polls for the original TV Star Trek (and maybe Batman or Superman ending w some of the Patreon TV episodes ??) -- There's so many movies, I have a separate list for Westerns and WW2
I always thought this was a good movie…the guy wanting to run for office…was in a lot of later John Wayne movies was in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..and was the military court judge in Sergeant Rutledge…but like everyone,else…I liked your interpretation of this one…you are smart…