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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fort Petticoat |
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This western starring Audie Murphy is set during the civil war when all the men have gone off to war. All the women are left at the ranches and farms to continue with the work.
However the Indians decide it's time to attack and it's up to a lone cavalry officer to protect them. He disobeys orders and stays to help them. He teaches the women how to defend themselves and fight back with army training.
As he spends more time with the women he finds it harder to push them away and remain distant. A few of the women make passes at him but his main priority is to protect them.
When the Indians attack will they be ready? Will the women melt the militant officer?
--H Louise, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fort Petticoat |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1900-1920's
Training/Promotion story?
Yes
Kinds of training/promotion:
- military
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- Good white men fighting wicked Indians
- rescue
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Setting
United States
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- ranch
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- None
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