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jmars
@fewvisiblescars I took away the opposite. It seems like Ford is criticizing history’s tendency to glorify the commanders and turn a blind eye to their stupidity, ignorance and bigotry, when the real heroes were the common soldiers doing their duty.
few visible scars
Sorry, I just don't get it.. a glorification of stupidity, ignorance and bigotry? A film where the John Wayne character - in comparison- comes out as the reasonable one?
Zeltaebar
I totally agree with mi-16evil and bubastis, and I would like to add that it is overlong. Bits and pieces of interest from John Wayne and Henry Fonda who both have a lot of screen presence and try to do something with their roles, but they have a difficult task cut out for them to catch a modern audience's interest. I also loved Stagecoach and therefore expected more from the legendary John Ford than this yawn of a movie.
