Review of 7th Cavalry

This movie feels like a less interesting remake of "Only the Valiant" and Benson does the same thing as Gregory Peck's Lance when he's failed in a situation that wasn't his fault. The movie also presents the Lakota and Cheyenne as savages, glossing over the fact that while their treatment of the cavalry's bodies was brutal they also had it coming, and Benson facetiously disrespect the Lakota religion in one scene. Although maybe that's the point. Maybe the film was trying to make a political point about manifest destiny or about American might against the "other". The dashing warrior Young Hawk provides a refreshing counter-argument towards Benson and his small band of grave-robbers, but Benson and his unit fail to see the irony of their situation. They also portray the Lakota and Cheyenne as being superstitious, although on the side of the whites there's no proof of the existence of God or the saints to give them big medicine. It's a 1950's curiosity anyway, and it has some pretty imagery.