Riverbend

Hollywood has no problem with rewriting the Vietnam War according to changing standards of audience bloodlust. Why should the civil rights movement of the 1960s remain immune? Even the prestige production MISSISSIPPI BURNING ran into charges of factual distortion. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that someone would apply RAMBO's bare-chests-and-automatic-weapons formula to the civil rights struggle. It's 1966, and three African-American Army officers are being escorted through Georgia to a court-martial (their crime: refusing a direct order to massacre Vietnamese women and children). The soldiers manage to escape their MP guards and seek shelter in the home of wido...