In Pursuit of Honor

• The Jack Bull
• Rough Riders
• Last of the Dogmen
• Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts
• The Tracker
• Broken Trail (Two-disc)
• You Know My Name
• Paradise
• Dead Bang
• 3:10 to Yuma (Widescreen Edition)

That's not a war movie. It's so beautiful. History on men and a special friendship and respect.

Are they going to succeed. Some NCO decide to save them : they try to reach Canada. That's about a military/political decision taken in an office. Instead of sendind faithful horses to their retirement in country, they dedecided to kill them.

I really liked it. I've seen that movie on TV. They decided to bring tanks to replace horses.

The heros were cavalry officers and enlisted men who actually stole the horses and made it to Canada with hundreds of them. One very graphic scene of horses being gunned down by the military that was hard to watch, but the rest of the uplifting story was worth it. This is an amazing true story about the rescue of WWI surplus Army horses that the government had ordered to be slaughtered. Evading capture the whole way.

1) Cavalry horses were never disposed of by machine-gunning them - either they were humanely put down or sold. This movie is absolutely and completely wrong.

2) No one ever stole cavalry horses to prevent them from being shot and then took them to Canada. They couldn't though, because their organization had not itself been slandered.

Cavalry (check Amazon if you don't believe me). Don't waste your time.

Cavalry Association, an organization composed of cavalry veterans, attempted to sue the filmmakers for slander over this film. 4) There are numerous other smaller historical inaccuracies that I don't have the energy to mention, but other reviewers already have.

Let me preface my comments by saying that I am a cavalry historian and have published a book on the U.S. 3) The U.S.

This leads to a chase across America as the army track them with orders to do whatever is necessary to bring them back. It's not a deep portrayal of characters, but it is nonetheless a compelling story, which wins points for being told in an economical way, without undue navel gazing. A young, idealistic officer (Craig Sheffer) and a grizzled veteran sergeant with a conscience, decide this is inhumane and against their principles and duty, given the Cavalry's sworn duty to protect his horse. With a handful of men at their side, they take the horses on the run. As part of the process, the Cavalry is changing form, and the order goes out to herd hundreds of horses to Mexico to be slaughtered. Worth while viewing. You'll have to be made of stone not to get some sort of lump in your throat during the scenes when horses have to be put down.

Don Johnson is terrific in the role, a far cry from his dapper toothy grinned characters elsewhere, and Sheffer just about holds his own. It's the Great Depression, and General Macarthur is trying to turn the American army into a modern force, with the growing threat of war from across the Atlantic looming. HBO continues to give the `Made for TV' label a good name with this interesting based-on-fact story. Rod Steiger plays the retired commanding officer who is sympathetic to the cause, and Gabrielle Anwar his beautiful daughter who is a journalist and brings the story to a wider audience.

Army to stop using the horse cavalry and convert to gas-powered vehicles. This story revolves around a group of old cavalry soldiers who cannot stand to watch the slaughter of the hundreds of horses owned by the Army.

They end up stealing the horses and driving them North to Canada where they will be turned out to run wild and free. Direction is superb; every frame manages to catch the tension, the terror, the anger and the beauty of the land and horses running for freedom.

Doing so, they are pursued by the Army who is bent on stopping them, or killing the men and the horses. At the ending is a riviting ten minutes that will keep you glued to your seats crying, praying, holding your breath or cheering for the ones you think the heros.

You can almost feel the drive in the men and the horses; and in the equal ferocity of the officer leading the chase. Ultimately the time had to come for the U.S.

If this film does nothing else, the actors manage to get across so clearly the love of the men for their horses and the conviction that what they are doing is right.