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The Horse Soldiers [DVD] [1960]

Staring: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson
Director: John Ford
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Product Details
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070020304
Format: PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2004-03-01
Running Time: 115
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-06-12

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Editorial Review
Amazon.co.uk Review
A crisp retelling of a true-life episode from the Civil War, The Horse Soldiers is a latter-day sorta-Western from John Ford, falling midway between The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). In 1863 a Union colonel named Grierson (Marlowe in the film, and John Wayne by any name) led his cavalry several hundred miles behind Confederate lines to cut the railway track between Newton Station and soon-to-be-embattled Vicksburg. Grierson's raid was as successful as it was daring, and remarkably bloodless. Never fear that the screenplay makes up for that un-Hollywood lapse--as well as supplying amatory distraction for the colonel in the form of a feisty Southern belle (Constance Towers) who has to be dragged along to protect secrecy.

There's a certain amount of bombast in the running arguments about wartime ethics between Marlowe and the new regimental surgeon (William Holden), who don't take to each other at all. But Ford more than makes up for it with such tasty scenes as an encounter with a couple of redneck Rebel deserters (Denver Pyle and Strother Martin), an ethereal swamp crossing led by a cornpone deacon (Hank Worden), and above all the famous skirmish with a hillside full of young cadets from a venerable military academy. The film ends rather abruptly because Ford abandoned a climactic battle scene--the veteran stunt man and bit player Fred Kennedy having been killed in a horse-fall. Golden-age cowboy star Hoot Gibson, who acted in Ford's directorial debut, Straight Shooting (1917), appears as Sergeant Brown. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Way down south, 2010-07-16
John Ford is on form and so are John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers in this Union raid on the Confederate States.

The Horse Soldiers, 2009-08-14
one of John Waynes really good films. Plenty of action, with a mix of a bit of comedy, and a little romance. A good buy.

horse soldiers, 2009-04-28
one of john wayne's best westerns set during the civil war he leads a company of latter day commando's through enemy lines to disrupt their lines of supply he is accompened by william holden who plays a docter and the friction between the two is very entertaining one unrealistic note is wayne's declareation of love for the southern beauty who causes him so much trouble when performing his duty

John Wayne Plays Hamlet, 2010-03-06
Having seen some of the reviews on here you would think JW is a classical actor of the old school, far from it. He is your action/adventure actor, without whom, Stallone, Arnie & co would not have had film careers.

Like a lot of films the Horsesoldiers is BASED on a true story, but is not totally accurate. What this film is, is typical Wayne, a hero with little or no education, but everybody loves and he wins the day.

Forget all the whats this character, how does she fit into this film, what's the director doing.

Like all Wayne films its about entertainment and enjoyment, if you want a heavy film and lots of English literature reviews then look elsewhere, "that man downstairs with those tester stripes, for Majors on up" is hardly Shalesspeare. If its action you want, with some female interest, then this is probably outside your front door, waiting for you to watch.

Wayne is excllent as the lead and has a fine support cast.

Action, some comedy and the female interest, what more could you want.

La Grange To Baton Rouge, For U.S. Grant, 2010-04-30
Based on a true story ( loosely ) and sporting a top class cast including John Wayne and William Holden, this John Ford directed western is watchable enough, it seems to lack a little something,but is good entertainment value. In the early months of the American civil war, the South, with less men and resources were winning hands down, it was clear that the union would have to try to strangle Confederate supplies in order to gain an advantage. John Wayne heads to Newton Station to destroy it and cut off a lifeline to the South, William Holden is the surgeon and the love interest is Constance Towers. Well worth a look.The Horse Soldiers [DVD] [1960]