The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers
1959 movie poster
Directed byJohn Ford
Screenplay byJohn Lee Mahin
Martin Rackin
Based onThe Horse Soldiers
1956 novel
by Harold Sinclair (1907-1966)
Produced byJohn Lee Mahin (uncredited)
Martin Rackin (uncredited)
Allen K. Wood (production manager)[1]
StarringJohn Wayne
William Holden
Constance Towers
CinematographyWilliam H. Clothier
Edited byJack Murray
Music byDavid Buttolph
Color processColor by Deluxe
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • June 12, 1959 (1959-06-12)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.8 million (US and Canada rentals)[2]

The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966) 1956 novel of historical fiction of the same name, a fictionalized version of the famous Grierson's Raid by Federal cavalry in April–May 1863 riding southward through Mississippi and around the Mississippi River fortress of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign to split the southern Confederacy by Union Army Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

  1. ^ Landesman, Fred (August 13, 2015). The John Wayne Filmography. McFarland. p. 149. ISBN 9781476609225.
  2. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M164.