it be characteristic that this film be not well know . it obviously lack most element that a successful theater film need represent hero and villain and conflict and resolution and romantic love interest . everything be topsy turvy here and nothing work out a it should and everyone be clumsy and sad and angry and hurt and hungry and nobody have a solution for anything . in short represent it be war and it be hell for everybody involve . people try to do best and but interest and allegiance and so call duty interfere . the picture transport u back in time to the civil war with an intensity seldom see in today cinema . straightforward honest image of an intense beauty . the actor be very well cast for the story and they make the character come truly alive in front of our eye . a silver dollar in a heap of nickel .