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...Bergen, Norway...
...level would be to risk irrelevance, and so, in its last reel, Soldier Blue goes liberal on us. Candice and her friend eventually make it to the fort, where everyone is poised to attack the Cheyenne village where Candice had been holing up for the past two years. Both Bergen and Strauss are incapable of halting the madness. The film turns into a bloodbath as a crazy, half-drunken major directs the inevitable massacre. Not only do his men slaughter the village chief when he approaches them with an American flag and treaty papers, but they also rape every woman...
...demands on this society. Why not concern ourselves with their reality? Why not a documentary on the appalling conditions found on government reservations? Or better yet, a film about the growing numbers of young Indian militants, like those that have taken over Alcatraz? Why must we settle for Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss...
...frontal nudity (which only became permissible in R films last year), all of it exploiting Indian women. When Candice gets around to her long-promised sex scene, the director discreetly cuts away. I suppose he might try to defend himself on grounds of realism-Miss Bergen's orgasms hardly being central to his theme-but the whole ploy screams of double standards...
...take the actor that Nelson hired to play the Cheyenne chief who falls in love with Candice. Not only does the script demand that the chief treat Miss Bergen as if he were a knight out of courtly romance (when he discovers Candice has given his love beads to Honus, he nobly frees her to find happiness with her white lover), but he's not even acted by an Indian. Instead, he's a muscle-bound Mediterranean with an obviously Italian name. Now, the point isn't that an Italian can't play such a wooden Indian. It's that...