Soul Soldier

{{short description|1970 film by John Cardos}} {{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{multiple issues| {{No plot|date=May 2025}} {{More footnotes needed|date=March 2021}} }} {{redirect|Buffalo Soldier (film)|other films|Buffalo Soldier (disambiguation)}} {{redirect-distinguish|Black Cavalry|Black Horse Cavalry|Buffalo Soldier (disambiguation)}} {{redirect|The Red, White, and Black|the Marvel Comics limited series|Truth: Red, White & Black}} {{Infobox film | name = Soul Soldier | image = Soul Soldier.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name =  | director = John Cardos | producer = Stuart Hirschman James M. Northern | writer = Marlene Weed | screenplay = | story = | based_on =  | starring = Robert DoQui Isaac Fields Barbara Hale Rafer Johnson Lincoln Kilpatrick Isabel Sanford Janee Michelle | narrator =  | music = Stu Phillips Tom McIntosh | cinematography = Lew Guinn | editing = Lew Guinn Morton Tubor | studio = Hirschman-Northern Productions | distributor =  | released = {{Film date|1970|12|16|as ''The Red, White, and Black''|1972|||as ''Soul Soldier''}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = United States | language = English | gross =  }} '''''Soul Soldier''''' (produced under the working title of '''''Men of the Tenth''''', originally released as '''''The Red, White, and Black''''', released on home video as '''''Buffalo Soldier''''' in the United States and '''''Black Cavalry''''' in Australia, and also called '''''Soul Soldiers''''') is a 1970 American blaxploitation Western film.<ref>Fisher (2011), p. 191.</ref>

==Production== The film was initially produced by Hirschman-Northern Productions under the working title ''Men of the Tenth''.<ref>Munden (1997), p. 895.</ref> After it was filmed on 16 mm film and released under the title ''The Red, White, and Black'', producer Stuart Hirschman asked John Cardos to salvage the film, and Cardos, after looking at the existing footage, insisted that the entire film needed to be reshot in 35mm film.<ref>Fischer (2011), p. 126.</ref> Cardos directed the reshoot, which was entirely shot on an Arriflex 35 IIC.<ref>Pope (2013), p. 84.</ref>

===Casting=== Richard Dix's son Robert Dix appears in the film as a Native American warrior.<ref>Albright (2008), p. 47.</ref> Isabel Sanford portrays the character Isabel Taylor.<ref>Smith (2013), p. 247.</ref> Janee Michelle and Robert DoQui share nude sex scenes in the film.<ref>{{Cite news|work=The Chicago Defender|title=Janee Michelle Makes Debut in Film 'Soul Soldier'|page=10|year=1972}}</ref> Rafer Johnson, who had won medals as a decathlete at the Olympic Games, starred in the film and intended to use all the money he earned from acting in the film to start his own film company.<ref>{{Cite news|work=Jet|title=People are Talking About|date=January 28, 1971|page=46}}</ref>

The financial success of the film led to the production of several other films in the genre.<ref>Clark (1995), p. 159.</ref> When the film was released on home video, it was renamed ''Buffalo Soldier''.<ref>Pitts (2012), p. 327.</ref>

==See also== * List of American films of 1970

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{Cite book|author=Albright, Brian|title=Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s|year=2008|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=9780786482504}} * {{Cite book|author=Clark, Randall|title=At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1995|isbn=0815319517}} * {{Cite book|author=Fischer, Dennis|title=Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2011|isbn=9780786485055}} * {{Cite book|author=Fisher, Austin|title=Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2011|isbn=9781848855786}} * {{Cite book|author=Munden, Kenneth White|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 2|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0520209702}} * {{Cite book|author=Pitts, Michael R.|title=Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films|edition=2|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2012|isbn=9781476600901}} * {{Cite book|author=Pope, Norris|title=Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2013|isbn=9781617037429}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0069167}}

Category:1970 films Category:Blaxploitation films Category:American Western (genre) films Category:1970 Western (genre) films Category:Western (genre) cavalry films Category:Buffalo Soldiers Category:Films shot in Texas Category:Films directed by John Cardos Category:1970 directorial debut films Category:Films scored by Stu Phillips Category:1970 English-language films Category:1970 American films