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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 13353
Released: May 8, 2001 |
| Our Price: $4.20 |
| Used Price: $3.99 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color DVD Full Screen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Based on a true story, five cavalry officers are in a race against time, risking their honor and their lives to save four hundred horses destined for destruction by the US Army.
In Pursuit of Honor Reviews:
Very good movie 
2009-11-09 - This is a wonderful movie combining the elements of a good old western with that of an old war movie, as the post WWI, pre-WWII America recovers from the great depression the Army decides that the Horse Calvary is obsolete the bureaucrats in Washington order the Horses of the Calvary to be executed by machine-gun in order to save money.
A young Calvary Officer Lt. Marshall Buxton (played by: Craig Sheffer) & three old veteran Calvary SGT.s headed by Sgt. John Libby (played by: Don Johnson) take the horses from the death squads and lead them through the rough country side of early 20th century American west and even an Indian reservation, to get them to safety. All while the Army relentlessly pursues them as criminals.
There former Commanding Officer Ret. Colonel Stuart (played by Rod Steiger) pleads with General Douglas MacArthur for leniency as his daughter Jessica Stuart (played by: Gabrielle Anwar) a reporter with the American press who gets a little help from a British News Paper man to bring the story to the public and bring pressure on the Army to stop what it's doing.
The story brings to mention some not so well known historical events of the period, it is well written with a great cast and is just a really good story.
For the history buffs most everything appears to be done well in the background as for props, costumes, vehicles, etc. All appear to be correct and accurate to the period.
MY DISCLAIMER:
Haven't seen anything that confirms how true any of this story is in real history. But then it's just a movie for entertainment and not a documentary for education.
Great story!!!
2009-07-23 - I saw this movie in my history class and I loved it!! The story about saving veteran horses from slaughter and treating them with the same dignity and respect we give our veterans is wonderful. As an animal and history lover, I really enjoyed this and plan to buy it for my collection.
In Pursuit of Honor
2009-07-05 - My husband had seen this movie a long time ago and asked me to see if I could find it online. I found it on Amazon and I ordered it on Monday and it arrived in the mail on Friday. This is a movie that will always be in my library, after I loan it to our grandchildren.
In pursuit of Honor
2009-06-15 - The DVD was exactly as advertised and arrived just a few days after placing the order. I will order from this seller again.
They didn't get the Bonus Marches right either...... 
2009-06-12 - They didn't get the Bonus Marches right in the movie. MacArthur offered tents and rolling kitchen meals for vets, but Congress didn't want the vets to have 3 meals a day during the protest, while 8 million people in US were out of work and needed food as well. FDR offered free transportation to N Y vets to return home. The president offered the rest of vets the same. Most vets left at that point. The Communist Party planned a riot in order to provoke a gov. attack on protesters. FBI fingerprinted a thousand criminals taking part in protest. The cavalry was called in and did not use swords or guns. They used teargas!
In 1948, the Communist Party revealed through publications their part in the march. Several communist party leaders were rounded up at the time.
The rest of the movie, although entertaining, was PURE FICTION!
