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Pharaoh's Army is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 january 1995 with Chris Cooper
Pharaoh's Army (1995)
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Add to a movie listPharaoh's Army is a 1995 American film directed, written and produced by Robby Henson, starring Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Kris Kristofferson. The film takes place in Kentucky during the American Civil War and focuses on an uneasy encounter between a small squadron of Union Army soldiers that take up residence at the farm of a woman whose husband is fighting in the Confederate States Army.
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The story is narrated by an unnamed boy, now an old man, ‘as best as he can remember’.Actors
Chris Cooper
(Captain John Hull Abston)
Patricia Clarkson
(Sarah Anders)
Kris Kristofferson
(Preacher)
Robert Joy
(Chicago)
Richard Tyson
(Rodie)
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