Good point, Liz. Also the bad language was more likely to be blaspheming, something which most of us wouldn't even notice nowadays.
I heard a wonderful anecdote about Irving Berlin, when he was rehearsing that scene one of the stage hands commented to a friend. "If the guy who wrote the song could hear this, it'd kill him." Or words to the effect.
"They Died With their Boots On" is Custer as he wished he could have been. That said, watch it for Errol Flynn.
Aleksander Nyevski is a brilliant film, forget politics, Eisenstein was, if not THE master, at least in the running.
Best thing about the 1938 Four Feathers is that the river boats and many of the Sudanese extras were actualy veterans of Omdurman.