when sam peckinpah superlative the wild bunch ( 1969 ) open the door to outrageous display of graphic cinematic ultra violence and it do so with a talented ( if whisky marinate ) hand guide the camera and have a compelling story with character who have actual depth and but in no time flat there be score of imitator that fell far from the benchmark set by peckinpah epic and and soldier blue definitely fall into that category . soldier blew and er and blue tell the story of foul mouth new yorker cresta lee ( candice bergen ) a blonde proto hippie chick who be rescue from two year of captivity among the cheyenne and be now be send to a fort where she will be reunite with the fiancée she only want to marry for his money . also on board the wagon she travel in be a shipment of government gold and cash the cheyenne need to buy gun with and so in short order the soldier be wipe out and cresta flees to the hill and accompany by honus gant ( peter strauss ) and the lone survive cavalryman . call gant by the snarky nickname soldier blue and cresta demonstrate that her year among the savage be time well spent and outstrip gant in survival skill and common sense and and sheer ball and and over their journey toward the fort they must persevere against the element and a band of hostile kiowa and an unscrupulous trader  play by donald pleasance and here give one of his most ridiculous performance and and that say something  and and in the tradition of many previous western set romantic comedy and each other . during the course of their misadventure the two opposite be inevitably  and predictably  attract to each other and eventually end up get it on  while gant have a freshly treat bullet wound that go clean through his leg and no less  in what be surely the only conveniently locate cave for at least a twelve mile radius that wasn not fill with rattlesnake and mountain lion and or who know what and to say nothing of the cheyenne and who could have do something really spiffy with such a primo apartment ( there i go and think in nyc real estate term again ) . realize that their love could never flourish outside of the cave and cresta leaf gant and make it to the fort by herself only to discover that the moron in charge would not spare a couple of men so they can rescue gant while the regiment need all available personnel to launch an attack on the nearby cheyenne village and and once cresta get wind of that she slip past her obnoxiously horny hubby to be and make a beeline straight to the cheyenne to warn them of what come . what happen next be what gain the film it infamy while it turn out that all the wacky misadventure and squabble be all just a lead in to a hideous reenactment of the 1864 sand creek massacre and an orgy of rape and torture and general sadistic evil perpetrate in the name of keep the country clean and and almost forty year after it release this sequence still disturb and nauseate for it sheer cruelty . child be trample beneath the hoof of charge horse or impale on bayonet and unarmed people be behead  a nice effect and i have to admit  woman be strip and paw by gang of slaver brute and then rap and mutilate  in one truly sicken instance a naked native woman put up too much of a fight and so her rapist instead decide to cut off her breast and which we thankfully only see the start of before the camera move on to chronicle some other hideous act  and score of innocent people be shot and dismember and their compone nt part impale on pike and wave about in victorious celebration or keep a the most ghoulish of souvenir . no joke and this scene would instantly garner an nc 17 rating if release today and to say nothing of possibly spur native american interest group to riot in the street over the incredibly exploitative manner in which the atrocity be depict . i be all in favor of western that do not shy away from honest portrayal of how the west be win and or steal if truth be tell and but this film have no idea of what kind of movie it want to be while one minute it a heavy hand pseudo hippy lecture about how the treatment of the native be totally eff up ( well and duh . ) and then it a light hearted battle of the sex farce wherein cresta prove herself five time the man gant be and manage to look hot in her tasty red calico poncho ( with no undies ) and but that all go out the window when donald pleasance show up with an unintentionally ( . ) hilarious pair of buck toothed denture and our hero must figure out how to escape from his murderous clutch in a sub plot that go nowhere and all of which culminate in the aforementioned apocalyptic climax . any one of those tack would have be okay for a coherent film and but the end result be a slapdash mess that milk the horror of it final ten minute for all they be worth in the film promotion and poster imagery . but by try to be all thing to all audience and soldier blue end up a an incoherent and preachy mulligan stew of presumably well intentioned political correctness and but if they be go to tell the story of the sand creek massacre and wouldn not it have be a good idea to have some indian character who be more than just walk ons with murphy brown act a their mouthpiece . we get to know absolutely nothing of the people who get wipe out solely for what appear to be a crass ploy to lure gorehound moviegoer into see the most savage film in history . if you and like me and be intrigue by the provocative ad and review that shower almost endless praise upon it for it daring to tell it like it be and take my word for it and let soldier blue slowly fade into cinematic obscurity .