Pharaoh's Army (1995)

Director:

Robby Henson

Writer:

Robby Henson (writer)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

A private civil war

Plot:

During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Chris Cooper	...	Captain John Hull Abston
Patricia Clarkson	...	Sarah Anders
Kris Kristofferson	...	Preacher
Robert Joy	...	Chicago
Richard Tyson	...	Rodie
Frank Clem	...	Neely
Huckleberry Fox	...	Newt
Will Lucas	...	Boy
Mac Miles	...	Israel
Robert E. Simpson	...	Narrator
Maude Mitchell	...	Preacher's Wife
Rebecca Ryland	...	Mourner
Scott Coffman	...	Mourner
Gale Wilson	...	Mourner
Stacie Coffman	...	Mourner

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief violence and sexual references.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Kentucky, USA

Company:

Cicada Films

Trivia:

The text at the end of film reads: "In 1941, a Kentucky mountaineer returned to a remote sinkhole, the place where during the Civil War he had killed and buried a Union Soldier. This film was inspired by his story as told to the folklorist Harry Caudill."

Soundtrack:

Love Lingers On

A true depiction of the humanistic effect of war

Thought provoking, humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war. A small, but altruistic view of one family's interactions with the enemy during the civil war in Kentucky. This movie lessens the "glamor" of war; showing it's effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit.

A lot of today's movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the "hero's" and other glamorous features of war, but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community. This movie attempts this through a retelling of a person's memory of those days. This movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events, when in reality, this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds, perhaps thousands of "actual events" during the civil war. I highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie.