It is one of the most controversial late westerns of all time and broke the mold for the first time Fairy tales about the good soldiers in the blue uniform. Blue Soldiers or as it is so impressively called here, The Lullaby of Manslaughter, by Ralph Nelson is a brutal western one of the worst massacres in American history treated.
At the July 18th The film will be released in a new edition on Blu-ray * and in limited 4K steelbook *, which can already be pre-ordered now. Streaming fans can also find The Lullaby of Manslaughter on Prime Video * to buy or rent.
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The embossed steelbook includes the film on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. As Bonus material you will find an interview with actress Candice Bergen and an audio commentary by film critics Steve Mitchell and Howard S. Berger.
That’s what the western The Lullaby of Manslaughter is about
Recruit Honus firmly believes in being on the right side of the law and sees the indigenous population as pure evil. As members of the Cheyenne tribe Cash truck robbed, he initially feels confirmed in his point of view, but then he meets the Squaw Cresta and learns a different point of view. Although his faith is faltering, he is used to retaliate against the indigenous tribe Witness an unparalleled carnage.
The film is based on the novel
Arrow in the Sun by TV Olsen, where the plot and characters are fictionalized, but the historical background is related to the actual events of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 busy. 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho were killed. Most of the victims were women and children.
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The lullaby of manslaughter sparked controversy
There are several reasons why The Lullaby of Manslaughter caused controversy when it was published in 1970. On the one hand, the political mood in the USA was heated by the Vietnam War. The judicial one Coming to terms with the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which US soldiers murdered 504 civilians in cold blood, sparked an anti-war movement among the public. The image of American heroes fighting for freedom became an image of bestial perpetrators without mercy. This is exactly what The Lullaby of Manslaughter portrays, changing the previously accepted historical image of the good soldiers and the bad natives.
But that was also controversial detailed depiction of violence in rape scenes and the close-ups of bullets penetrating human tissue. Nelson mercilessly portrays the young soldiers as bloodthirsty madmen Violence against women and children don’t stop.
The film was not a hit with audiences in the USA, as it destroyed Nelson with its radical portrayal one of America’s greatest film myths. But in Britain and other parts of the world, the Western was a huge success.
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