The Horse Soldiers

Quick-fire western starring John Wayne as the leader of the Cavalry with the dangerous mission to go behind enemy lines and destroy a Confederate supply centre., Macho western based on a true story. As Colonel Marlowe, John Wayne leads three Yankee cavalry units on a 300-mile trek to blow up a crucial rail link behind Confederate lines. The mission is made trickier when a southern belle overhears the plan., John Ford’s Civil War-era docudrama stars John Wayne as John Marlowe, a Union colonel spearheading a group of saboteurs on a mission to destroy a Confederate railroad., Action-packed adventure based on an actual incident in the American Civil War. General Grant, the leader of the Union forces, orders a colonel and an army surgeon to lead a small cavalry unit 300 miles into Confederate territory to sabotage a strategically critical railway supply line., Leading up to the Siege of Vicksburg, a Union brigade is sent behind enemy lines to blow up a railroad depot to cut off Confederate supplies. Based on actual events., Action-packed adventure based on an actual incident in the American Civil War. General Grant, the leader of the Union forces, orders a colonel and an army surgeon to lead a small cavalry unit 300 miles into Confederate territory to sabotage a strategically critical railway supply line. A late film by the acclaimed director John Ford., John Wayne, Constance Towers and William Holden star in this 1863, fact-based story about a Union mission to destroy a railroad junction deep within Confederate territory.