The Blue and the Gray (The Complete Miniseries)
by Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actor: Colleen Dewhurst, John Hammond, Lloyd Bridges, Rory Calhoun, Stacy KeachDirector: Andrew V. McLaglen
Brand: Sony
Producer: Harry Thomason
Producer: Hugh Benson
Producer: John Leekley
Writer: John Leekley
Producer: Jon C. Andersen
Writer: Bruce Catton
Writer: Ian McLellan Hunter
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 381 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Blue and the Gray (The Complete Miniseries)
Movie Review: I would not have thought it possible to make such great historical events so uninteresting
Summary: 2 Stars
Given the historical significance of the American Civil War and the incredible drama, it is hard to believe that it could be made boring. However, that is what the producers of this TV miniseries managed to do. The acting is often sub par and the dialog weak, it ends shortly after Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. To me, the lowest point was near the end shortly after Lee surrendered to Grant. The Union soldiers are sitting around their campfires and talking about the lives that were lost in getting to that point. Suddenly, they grab torches and begin marching around singing a song. These are people who survived over four years of brutal war, they are not going to be marching around singing, any singing they would do would no doubt be drunken revelry. A challenge for the lowest point is when the Stacy Keach character has a prophetic dream that Abraham Lincoln is in danger for his life. With so much history of the American nation being created, a tangential movement into the supernatural falls flat.
Summary of The Blue and the Gray (The Complete Miniseries)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/06/2001 Run time: 380 minutes Rating: NrBefore Ken Burns, Glory, and Gettysburg, the Civil War proved an effective backdrop for this 1982 miniseries--available complete and uncut on this three-disc set--about two families divided by the War Between the States. John Hammond stars as John Geyser, a Southerner caught "betwixt and between" when he becomes a war correspondent for the Northern newspaper published by his uncle. Like a Civil War-era Forrest Gump, he finds himself "where history's in the making," from the Battle of Bull Run to the scene of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Stacy Keach costars as an Army scout who takes the "fresh off the farm" Geyser under his wing. Julia Duffy is the schoolmarm who loves Keach. The ham-handed dialogue is a guilty pleasure ("What's wrong with this land that produces such a bitter fruit?" asks the embittered Geyser). The meticulously mounted battle scenes, though, are a Civil War reenactor's dream. --Donald Liebenson
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