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The Horse Soldiers
1959 American film by John Ford / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 2018 film, see Horse Soldiers (film). For the 2009 book "Horse Soldiers", about soldiers in Afghanistan, see Doug Stanton.
The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi.
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Directed by | John Ford |
Screenplay by | John Lee Mahin Martin Rackin |
Based on | The Horse Soldiers 1956 novel by Harold Sinclair |
Produced by | John Lee Mahin (uncredited) Martin Rackin (uncredited) Allen K. Wood (production manager)[1] |
Starring | John Wayne William Holden Constance Towers |
Cinematography | William H. Clothier |
Edited by | Jack Murray |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Color process | Color by Deluxe |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3.8 million (US and Canada rentals)[2] |
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