Artist: WAYNE??JOHN
genre: Westerns
product type: DVD
rating: NR
Release Date: 21-MAR-2014

Product Description

A pacifist doctor joins a Union colonel's cavalry raid in Confederate territory. Directed by John Ford.

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This latter-day sort-of Western from John Ford--falling midway between The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--is a crisp retelling of a true-life episode from the Civil War. In 1863 a Union colonel named Grierson (Marlowe in the film?? and John Wayne by any name) led his cavalry several hundred miles behind Confederate lines to cut the railroad between Newton Station and soon-to-be-embattled Vicksburg. Grierson's Raid was as successful as it was daring?? and remarkably bloodless. Never fear that the screenplay makes up for that un-Hollywood lapse--as well as supplying amatory distraction for