Friday, February 12, 2021

7th Cavalry (1956)

 An officer returning to the Fort where he is stationed after he had been away fetching his bride-to-be discovers that most of the soldiers in the Fort are dead after a battle with Native Americans.

This preposterous film probably couldn't be told apart from the countless TV banalities that made up the remainder of its writer's career had it not been made and released as a theatrical movie. After the fiasco at Little Big Horn, what does the new commander at Fort Lincoln decide to do? Double down on the insanity and order a detachment into Sioux territory once again, looking to bring back the dead corpses so as to give them proper funerals. Fittingly for those death obsessed wackos, they are saved from slaughter by the dead themselves. A film for those with an infinite capacity for seeing the funny side of trash.

Rating: 12

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