[DavidG]

Read the fine print; this movie is based on a book not authorized by Ford, which while I have not read it, undoubtedly takes artistic license left right and center as do many authors when writing historical novels. The history in this case if followed line by line would bore movie goers to tears. All of the Company people are pretty much misrepresented (I was there), especially Mr. Ford and Leo Beebe, but that's the tension that the screenwriters used to create "their" story, not "the" story that actually transpired. Note that the Company did not endorse this movie as being historically accurate or in any other way. As was said above, it is not a documentary film, but a Hollywood effort to make a film with broad appeal without being burdened to sticking with the facts at every turn. As was also noted repeatedly above, after all the tumult and shouting, the end is dead nuts accurate to history.