Sentences with phrase «cavalry officer»

My quibble, however, is that no aged cavalry officer in 1890 in BFE New Mexico would have used the Hindi word for rainy season.

En route, Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky (Olivia Williams), who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor - Johnson).

Lorens, a dissolute young cavalry officer from Sweden, is infatuated with Martine from first sight.

But «Hostiles» is no spoof; it's a deadly serious examination of the strained relationship between white men and Native Americans in this country, one that acknowledges the racism and brutality the U.S. Army showed to frontier tribes, while giving a bigoted cavalry officer played by Christian Bale a chance to redeem himself.

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

James Skinner, an Anglo - Indian cavalry officer, built it in fulfillment of a battlefield vow.

The other candidate was colonel Arnesto Claremount, a retired cavalry officer.

A US cavalry officer is accidentally transported to Mars where he encounters a warring civilisation who require his help to end the conquest of their world by a brutal warlord.

Bale plays hateful cavalry officer Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale) assigned to escort Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), his most despised Native American adversary, 1,000 miles north to the sickly and dying chief's tribal home in Montana.

Sparks fly when she encounters the countess» son, strutting cavalry officer Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor - Johnson).

But the script feels the need to cram in the obviously scheming railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), corrupt cavalry officer Fuller (Barry Pepper), and a perfunctory love story between Dan's widow, Rebecca (Ruth Wilson) and John.

But, convenient to the story (yet never satisfactorily explained), the once - proud chief has been mellowed by cancer and seven years in an Army prison, and now, he's fit to serve as the exception who challenges Blocker's stereotypes — «the good Indian» whose company will bring Blocker and his band of racist cavalry officers around (as if there's any sacrifice that can absolve them of the part they played in the battle of Wounded Knee).

Tributes were tendered first to both Patrick Stewart and Cate Blanchett before the kickoff of Scott Cooper's Hostiles, about a bigoted U.S. cavalry officer (Christian Bale) tasked with escorting a Cheyenne war chief named Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) from New Mexico to his original territory in Montana.

In a tightly structured narrative, Philbrick sketches the two larger - than - life antagonists: Sioux chief Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union's greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage.

Mountain Man — $ 15.00 by Charles Ray Can a black mountain man, Caleb Johnson, learn to get along with a former Confederate cavalry officer, after saving his life?

In the waning years of the 1800s, a German cavalry officer, Captain Max von Stephanitz, made it his mission to develop the ideal German herder.

The work is abstract in nature, depicting powerful imagery of war (medals, banners and flags) as well as imagery associated with a particular German officer - Karl von Freyburg, a young cavalry officer who had recently been killed in action.

Although Denison was a lawyer and cavalry officer prior to becoming a magistrate, the vast majority of judicial officers of that day had no previous legal training and did not see this as an impediment to fulfilling the role of magistrate.

Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford play three cavalry officers, always ready for a brawl but willing to die for each other if need be.

But things go horribly wrong when she falls for the more obvious charms of a dashing cavalry officer, Sergeant Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge).

Anna Karenina is a tragic story of a married aristocrat - socialite from Saint Petersburg and her affair with an affluent count, a cavalry officer, circa 1874.

This group, Der Verein fur Deutsche Schaeferhunde (sv) was founded by Max von Stephanitz, a cavalry officer known as the father of the breed.

Matthew Craven likewise draws upon historical images from American history, cavalry officers, and Native American design to create works that cross-reference appropriations of heritage and history.

He studied law and served as a cavalry officer for the Czar in World War I, until the Bolsheviks imprisoned him in 1918.

He served as a cavalry officer in the czar's army during World War One, escaped to Poland, and later France, when the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, and arrived in New York in 1920, where he anglicized his name.