Soul Soldier

Soul Soldier
Directed by	John Cardos
Produced by	Stuart Hirschman James M. Northern
Written by	Marlene Weed
Starring	Robert DoQui Isaac Fields Barbara Hale Rafer Johnson Lincoln Kilpatrick Isabel Sanford Janee Michelle
Music by	Stu Phillips Tom McIntosh
Cinematography	Lew Guinn
Edited by	Lew Guinn Morton Tubor
Production company	Hirschman-Northern Productions
Release dates	December 16, 1970 (as The Red, White, and Black) 1972 (as Soul Soldier)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Soul Soldier (produced under the working title Men of the Tenth; originally released as The Red, White, and Black; released on home video in the United States as Buffalo Soldier; released on home video in Australia as Black Cavalry; also called Soul Soldiers) is a 1970 blaxploitation Western film.^[1] The film was initially produced by Hirschman-Northern Productions under the working title Men of the Tenth.^[2] 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 35 mm film.^[3] Cardos directed the reshoot, which was entirely shot on an Arriflex 35 IIC.^[4] Richard Dix's son Robert Dix appears in the film as a Native American warrior.^[5] Isabel Sanford portrays the character Isabel Taylor.^[6] Janee Michelle and Robert DoQui share nude sex scenes in the film.^[7] 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.^[8] The financial success of the film led to the production of several other films in the genre.^[9] When the film was released on home video, it was renamed Buffalo Soldier.^[10]

See also

• List of American films of 1972
• List of American films of 1970

References

1. Fisher (2011), p. 191.
2. Munden (1997), p. 895.
3. Fischer (2011), p. 126.
4. Pope (2013), p. 84.
5. Albright (2008), p. 47.
6. Smith (2013), p. 247.
7. "Janee Michelle Makes Debut in Film 'Soul Soldier'". The Chicago Defender. 1972. p. 10.
8. "People are Talking About". Jet. January 28, 1971. p. 46.
9. Clark (1995), p. 159.
10. Pitts (2012), p. 327.

Bibliography

• Albright, Brian (2008). Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786482508.
• Clark, Randall (1995). At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0815319517.
• Fischer, Dennis (2011). Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786485051.
• Fisher, Austin (2011). Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1848855788.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 2. University of California Press. ISBN 0520209702.
• Pitts, Michael R. (2012). Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films (2 ed.). McFarland & Company. ISBN 1476600902.
• Pope, Norris (2013). Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1617037427.