User:WallMash/Pharaoh's Army

Pharaoh's Army is the 1995 first feature film of writer/director Robby Henson. It stars Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Tyson, Robert Joy, Frank Clem and Huckleberry Fox.

It was filmed in Kentucky near Danville and funded by Kentucky Educational Television, The National Endowment of the Arts and The Independent Television Service. It was released theatrically by Lions Gate Films and shown on PBS.

(info at 

SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to steal enemy (Confederate) livestock. The farm is wroked by Sarah Anders, whose husband is away fighting for the Confederate Army. Far from the great armies and battlefields, a very private civil war erupts. The Captain and Sarah are pulled apart by the war's undertow into choices they can not fully control or understand. Each character in this drama must decide whether loyalty will be paid in blood. This story has a relevance to current partisan conflicts. Armies are not filled with murdering psychopaths. Good people can be driven to do bad things. The story chronicles the pathology of war, how escalating events can trigger unasked-for tragedy. Based on a true story recorded by Harry Caudill about a southern child who shot and killed a union soldier during the Civil War. Written by {jstanley@stern.nyu.edu} (from 