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Title: Not Very Good Then (1970); Not Very Good Now!
Review: The Sand Creek Massacre portrayed in the worst Hollywood exploitive fashion! Stupid obligatory Hollywood love story mixed with a poorly produced Sam Peckinpah-like bloodletting. Add a decapitation of a squaw-dummy holding her doll-papoose; simulated rape of a curvaceous nude Indian maiden; a young Cheyenne boy's head exploding a-la the Zapruder-Kennedy assasination film and a young soldier (Strauss) asking, "Why? Why?". Good question: "Why make such a movie?" I can't help but recall that BOTH sides in the Indian Wars perpetrated atrocities with equal ferocity. By the end of this film you learn nothing new. "Soldier Blue" has developed a cult following for reasons probably based upon the simulated sex, blood and gore. It will only satisfy a cultist video-phile!
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