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A 1965 American historical anti-war drama film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Creator/JamesStewart, whose personal anti-war stance played a large part in the movie's existence. The supporting cast includes Doug [=McClure=], Glenn Corbett, Creator/PatrickWayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Creator/KatharineRoss, and Phillip Alford.
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A 1965 American historical anti-war drama film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Creator/JamesStewart, whose personal anti-war stance played a large part in the movie's existence. The supporting cast includes Doug [=McClure=], Glenn Corbett, Creator/PatrickWayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Creator/RosemaryForsyth, Creator/KatharineRoss, and Phillip Alford.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: How much Sam ever believed in the Confederate cause or still believes in at at the end of the film is ambigious. But after he and his men are rescued from the prison train, rather than return to the front to keep fighting for the Confederacy, he orders the others to go home, saying the South has already lost the war and no more of them should die before it's official.
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A 1965 American historical anti-war drama film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Creator/JamesStewart, whose personal anti-war stance played a large part in the movie's existence. The supporting cast includes Doug [=McClure=], Glenn Corbett, Creator/PatrickWayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross, and Phillip Alford.
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A 1965 American historical anti-war drama film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Creator/JamesStewart, whose personal anti-war stance played a large part in the movie's existence. The supporting cast includes Doug [=McClure=], Glenn Corbett, Creator/PatrickWayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross, Creator/KatharineRoss, and Phillip Alford.
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A 1965 American historical anti-war drama film directed by Andrew V. [=McLaglen=] and starring Creator/JamesStewart, whose personal anti-war stance played a large part in the movie's existence. The supporting cast includes Doug [=McClure=], Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Creator/PatrickWayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Katharine Ross, and Phillip Alford.
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However, when his youngest son is mistaken for a Confederate soldier and taken by Union forces, Anderson decides it is now "his war". He, his other sons (except the eldest, James, who stays behind with his wife Ann and their infant daughter Martha), and Jennie set out to save the boy. Before the film is over, the Anderson family will find itself drastically reduced.
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However, when his youngest son is mistaken taken by Union forces who mistake him for a Confederate soldier and taken by Union forces, soldier, Anderson decides it is now "his war". He, his other sons (except the eldest, James, who stays behind with his wife Ann and their infant daughter Martha), and Jennie set out to save the boy. Before the film is over, the Anderson family will find itself drastically reduced.
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* NobleConfederateSoldier: Downplayed. Many of the individual Confederate soldiers (especially Boy's friend Carter and Jennie's fiancé Sam) are highly sympathetic characters who just want to survive the war (the only explicitly racist character is Gabriel's owner, a civilian) and some of them are conscripts who don't have a choice about fighting. The only completely villainous Confederate soldiers in the movie are deserters. However, Charlie emphasizes to his sons in an early scene that fighting for the Confederacy boils down to fighting to preserve slavery, and none of the Confederates try to claim that they're fighting for states' rights.
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* NobleConfederateSoldier: Downplayed. Many of the individual Confederate soldiers (especially Boy's friend Carter and Jennie's fiancé Sam) are highly sympathetic characters who just want to survive the war (the only explicitly racist character is Gabriel's owner, a civilian) and some of them are conscripts who don't have a choice about fighting. The only completely villainous Confederate soldiers in the movie are deserters. However, Charlie emphasizes to his sons in an early scene that fighting for the Confederacy CSA boils down to fighting to preserve slavery, and none of the Confederates try to claim that they're fighting for states' rights.
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* BadassBaritone: Charlie
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* BreakTheHaughty: While Charlie is a highly sympathetic PapaWolf who refuses to support slavery, he can come across as rather arrogant early on and sad and deflated in the final scenes. His daily prayer to God is a rather condescending speech that he made his farm such a success without owing it to anyone else, but tradition says to thank God anyway. Charlie also expects to be able to browbeat government officials from both sides. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:three members of his family have died under tragic circumstances, something which visibly ages him]].
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: A DangerousDeserter [[spoiler: arrives on the farm and impales James with a sword seconds after James generously tells him he's welcome to all the water he can drink and carry.]]
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* CeilingCling: Several escaped Confederate [=POW=]s successfully hide from a Union patrol in the rafters of a covered bridge.
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* ThePatriarch: Charlie Anderson.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted, notably for its time, as neither side in the conflict is portrayed particularly flatteringly.
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* ThePatriarch: Charlie Anderson.
Anderson has seven children and one daughter-in-law in his household and imparts a lot of wisdom and authority to them about some things, while behaving detachedly about others. His main goal and focus is to keep his entire family out of the war. When push comes to shove, he's quite the PapaWolf while rarely ever raising his voice.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted, notably for its time, as neither side in the conflict is portrayed particularlyflatteringly.
flatteringly. A few scenes remind the audience that the primary purpose of the Confederacy is to keep slavery alive and that they take young men and livestock for a losing war effort while being reluctant to take no for an answer. On the other hand, several prominent Union characters keep their prisoners in horrible circumstances and don't show much sympathy for neutral civilians.
** Played straight with the portrayal of African-American Union soldiers, who fight alongside white soldiers instead of being in segregated regiments like in real life.
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*ProtectThisHouseSilkHidingSteel: Ann acts like a demure, well-dressed wife and mother for the most part, but when {{Tomboy}} Jennie fires a warning shot at several horse thieves, Ann is standing behind her, with a second rifle ready. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she doesn't have that gun handy when a trio of {{Dangerous Deserter}}s show up]].
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* TeamMom: AnnAnn does most of the housework for the family, has some SilkHidingSteel scenes and is a source of good advice and moral support.
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Charlie's mission to rescue his youngest son from captivity fails and indirectly gets three other family members killed, while the boy ends up escaping and getting home on his own. However, the whole affair isn't ''quite'' a ShootTheShaggyDog tale, as his quest does end up rescuing his son-in-law Sam from being taken to a HellholePrison where he might have died like so many other prisoners in the war.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Charlie's mission to rescue his youngest son from captivity fails and indirectly gets three other family members killed, while the boy ends up escaping and getting home on his own. However, the whole affair isn't ''quite'' a ShootTheShaggyDog tale, as his quest does end up rescuing his son-in-law Sam from being taken to a HellholePrison where he might have died like so many other prisoners in the war.]]
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: When Carter offers to let the boy join his escape plan, he doesn't describe his plan. That night, he, the boy, and their companions [[spoiler:wait until the guards are busy shooting after whoever inevitably tries to escape by swimming across the river, then go into the water themselves but cling to the river bank, [[RightUnderTheirNoses just out of sight of the nearby guard, and then slowly move off to the side until they're out of sight rather than cross the river]]]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: James, Ann, Jacob]]
* BittersweetEnding: The boy returns home, but the Anderson family has lost three members to the Civil War despite their best attempts to stay out of it.
* BittersweetEnding: The boy returns home, but the Anderson family has lost three members to the Civil War despite their best attempts to stay out of it.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: James, Ann, Jacob]]
Jacob are all doomed main characters]]
* BittersweetEnding: The boy returns home, but the Anderson family has lostthree members [[spoiler:three members]] to the Civil War despite their best attempts to stay out of it.
* BittersweetEnding: The boy returns home, but the Anderson family has lost
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* CanNotSpitItOut: SamSam's proposal goes slowly and nervously.
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* ChildSoldiers: Gabriel and the Boy
* ContrivedCoincidence: The train hijacked by the Anderson happens to be the prisoner of war transport Sam is on.
* HappilyMarried: Charlie and Martha were, until she died; James and Ann, [[spoiler: until they die.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: The train hijacked by the Anderson happens to be the prisoner of war transport Sam is on.
* HappilyMarried: Charlie and Martha were, until she died; James and Ann, [[spoiler: until they die.]]
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* ChildSoldiers: Gabriel and the Boy
Boy are teenagers who end up fighting in the war.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The train hijacked by the Anderson happens to be the prisoner of war transportSam [[spoiler:Sam]] is on.
* HappilyMarried: Charlie and Marthawere, both "liked" and "loved" each other deeply until she died; James and Ann, [[spoiler: until they die.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: The train hijacked by the Anderson happens to be the prisoner of war transport
* HappilyMarried: Charlie and Martha
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* NobleConfederateSoldier: Downplayed. Many of the individual Confederate soldiers (especially Boy's friend Carter and Jennie's fiancé Sam) are highly sympathetic characters who just want to survive the war (the only explicitly racist character is Gabriel's owner, a civilian) and some of them are conscripts who don't have a choice about fighting. The only completely villainous Confederate soldiers in the movie are deserters. However, Charlie emphasizes to his sons in an early scene that fighting for the Confederacy boils down to fighting to preserve slavery, and none of the Confederates try to claim that they're fighting for states' rights.
