Rating: NR
Genre:
Historical Film
Release Date: 07/26/2005
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 296 min
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour
Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by Civil War historian
Bruce Catton. The drama begins in 1859, with young war correspondent-to-be
John Hammond meeting future Union officer
Stacy Keach at the trial of abolitionist John Brown (
Sterling Hayden). They are reunited two years later during the presidential campaign of
Abraham Lincoln (
Gregory Peck) and are eyewitnesses at the battle of Bull Run. Keach marries
Julia Duffy in 1862, while Virginia-born
Hammond writes his dispatches from the Deep South. A subplot concerning a family torn by North/South loyalties is resolved just before Appomattox.
The Blue and the Gray was first telecast November 14, 16 and 17, 1982.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide