During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his ragtag cavalry force across a misty stream to a remote farm to capture enemy cattle.During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his ragtag cavalry force across a misty stream to a remote farm to capture enemy cattle.During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his ragtag cavalry force across a misty stream to a remote farm to capture enemy cattle.
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- (as Robert E. Sampson)
- Mourner
- (as Rebecca Ryland)
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- TriviaOriginal story took place at Meshack's Creek, Kentucky, in 1862; the town no longer exists. Tompkinsville is the nearest town officially recognized by the US Postal Service, roughly 6 miles to the west of the creek. The general area (Cumberland Gap), during the Civil War, experienced some of the most brutal clashes of the war; not only battles, but brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor.
- GoofsIf the dead chickens had already begun to smell then it's likely that eating them would not have been a good idea.
- Quotes
Chicago: [returning] Captain, there was a barn burnt down. Some old man and his wife were killed.
Captain John Hull Abston: Where?
Chicago: There.
[pointing]
Rodie: No more than five miles up the creek.
Captain John Hull Abston: [to Sarah] You know who's place it is?
Sarah Anders: Yankees.
Rodie: Ma'am they weren't Yankees. Just some old farmer and his wife.
Sarah Anders: They sent two boys into the Union Army.
[splits hatefully and goes into house]
Rodie: [splits back] They were just farmers...
Narrator: Like I said, the war was rough through here.
Everything is topsy-turvy here, nothing works out as it should, everyone is clumsy, sad, angry, hurt and hungry and nobody has a solution for anything. In short: it is war and it is hell for everybody involved. People try to do best, but interests, allegiances and so called duty interfere. The picture transports us back in time to the Civil War with an intensity seldom seen in today's cinema. Straightforward honest images of an intense beauty. The actors are very well cast for the story and they make the characters come truly alive in front of our eyes.
A silver dollar in a heap of nickels!
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- Gross US & Canada
- $50,652
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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