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Here the given reviews: ["for the wayne film Zero for william holden who carried a grudge all his life because he couldn't live up to his billing as a second rate performer and he had to eat a lot of crow from wayne on this film ... i don't know why everyone had such a low opinion of constance towers who performed brilliantly in this film and definitely a change of pace from maureen o'hara ... wayne played his usual self but softened to towers ... this was a very good civil war film and pretty historically accurate ", 'What Did They Find? Nothing" The last Ford-Wayne cavalry flick, "The Horse Soldiers" is the darkest in mood of the whole cycle. Colonel John Marlowe (Wayne) leads a Sherman-style cavalry raid deep into Confederate territory in order to lay waste Newton Station, a vital railway junction supplying the rebel garrison at Vicksburg. Marlowe was once a labouring man who helped furnish the growing nation with its sinews of rail tracks. Now his task is to destroy railroads - a symbolic comment on the evil of civil war. He takes two \'problem\' characters with him on his odyssey, because a story like this needs internal conflict if there is to be dramatic tension. One is army surgeon Kendall (William Holden), whose West Point background and insistence on the primacy of medical ethics antagonise Marlowe ceaselessly. The other is Hannah Hunter (Constance Towers), the Southern belle who cannot be left behind because she will pass on intelligence regarding Marlowe\'s cavalry column. There is plenty of the usual stuff on display. Wayne has to contend with a sergeant who is fond of alcohol. His irritation with Hannah gradually turns to love. Kendall is the nay-sayer within the otherwise harmonious military unit, a function performed nine years later by David Janssen\'s character in "The Green Berets". We get a rousing, manly marching song ("I Left My Love") and Ford\'s brand of endearing macho humour (bashing heads on the tent lamp, and such). There is even a dying boy-soldier to tug at our heart-strings. The character of Hannah is not handled satisfactorily. She has to be there, because in a formula movie such as this, the fighting is meant for the young male cinema audience and the love interest is built-in so that the girls taken along on dates will keep from getting bored. That\'s the theory, anyway. The trouble with Hannah is that she has to be sexy AND a Southern lady of 1863. Thus she wears a spectacularly decollete gown at dinner, and shows her legs during escape attempts in a way that simply would not have happened in real life. As for her dressing and undressing in the presence of soldiers - comment is superfluous. Even the \'leg or breast\' double-entendre is going too far. Kendall took an oath when he accepted a commission in the United States Army, but (as he is quick to point out) his Hippocratic Oath is an older and more binding one. He treats \'contrabands\' (displaced negroes) in direct violation of Marlowe\'s instructions. The clash of the two temperaments is well done - Marlowe elemental and irresistible, Kendall urbane and ironic. The film has us assume that Hannah will choose Kendall (he sits opposite her at the meal, and holds back from the banter - he even enters her boudoir). When she makes a different choice, we see Kendall sluicing-down a table with a bucket of water, symbolically washing her from his mind. As one would expect from a director of Ford\'s quality, the film contains some fine things. The arrival of the fateful train is seen by the viewer in a window-reflection as Miles looks on, conveying the forlorn irrationality of Southern hopes. The looking-glass image denotes self-awareness on Hannah\'s part. She shakes hands with each of Marlowe\'s staff officers in turn, carefully enunciating each name, outwardly polite but secretly memorising them for espionage purposes. When Marlowe kicks open the door of Greenbriar, this is the righteous, confident North reclaiming the South. In contrast, when Kendall kicks open the shack door he represents the arrival of scientific enlightenment to help poor humanity. Marlowe\'s shadow is cast across the sitting Hannah, growing as he strides towards her, signifying his increasing influence. We see two heroic Southern charges against Marlowe\'s men, both admirable but utterly futile - a comment on the South\'s cause. There was a poor edit from the uncasing of the regimental colours to the cavalry charge. And as for the Confederate artillery pieces, Peter and Paul - shouldn\'t they be firing solid shot, rather than exploding shells? The raid ends with Marlowe\'s men wrecking a bridge behind them and wandering off into Southern emptiness. Something at the core of the movie remains dissatisfying, and we carry away an uneasy feeling that this expedition (and by extension, the film itself) was a worthy but unnecessary effort. '] Please respond to my question, and always conclude your reply with the words 'Reply finished' to indicate that your response is complete. Ensure that the text is fully formed without any placeholders such as '[Conclusion]' or '[Placeholder]'. Make sure the reply is fully contained before these words and is not cut off prematurely. Thank you.