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This serious-minded, large-scale historical saga casts light on a shadowy corner of American history, the "St. Patrick's Brigade" in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s. Near the front lines, John Riley (Berenger), a respected Irish-American officer, rebels when several US Army soldiers, fellow immigrants, are brutalized because of their Catholic faith. He goes AWOL with the men, eventually siding with the Mexicans in their fight to hold onto territories that would become the American southwest. It's a tragic tale, recalling the era when Catholics (and Irish ones in
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