Soldier Blue

Kathy Maribel 'Cresta' Lee

Honus Gent

Col. Iverson

Spotted Wolf

Capt. Battles

Lt. McNair

Lt. Spingarn

Pvt. Menzies

Sgt. O'Hearn

Running Fox

Indian Woman (as Aurora Clavell)

Agent Long (as Alf Elson)

Kiowa Warrior (uncredited)

Lt. Mitchell (uncredited)

Lieutenant (uncredited)

Guard (uncredited)

Indian Scout (uncredited)

Mrs. Long (uncredited)

Film debut of James Hampton.

First film as a composer for Roy Budd.

In order to recreate the gory Sand Creek massacre of Cheyenne Indians, director Ralph Nelson sought the services of orphaned amputees. Various prosthetic limbs were affixed to missing body parts of these amputees, and then, in one of the most blood-and-guts sequences in film history, these "limbs" were mercilessly hacked off as the cameras rolled.

Candice Bergen's character has shaved armpits. This was not a practice for Western women until the twentieth century.

The voice-over at the end of the film describes the events we have just witnessed as taking place in 1864.However,earlier in the movie Honus tells Cresta that his father was killed at the battle of Little Bighorn which occurred in 1876.

Col. Iverson: [to Lt McNair] 'McNair! Raze the village! Burn this... pestilence!'

Honus Gent: I'm going to sleep.

Col. Iverson: When I see young people today behaving like that I just... I can't help wondering what this goddamn country's coming to.