Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Watched both of these in the past few days and both enjoyable in their own way. Both were notable for not featuring any native american actors.
Burt Lancaster is the Apache of the title and Victoe Mature played Crazy Horse. Both did a fine job but I doubt that such casting would be permitted to day and rightly so.
Apache is perhaps the better film, better scripted and better acted. Crazy Horse is ok but suffers from the need to insert a white guy in the story who is a friend of Crazy Horse. I dont think that such a character exiisted.
Many of the period westerns felt the need to have a white guy playing a heeroic role in films that were generally sympathetic to native americans. In fact thee were so many of them that I cant see how they got shafted by the US government.
Dances WIth Wolves is perhaps the most recent example of this. Even Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian pretending to be authentic.
Maybe it is time for these films to be remade with honest scripts and realistic characters. I am sure that there is a market for it and the talent is there to make it happen.
Donna Reed should not be playing "Indian" princesses.
Burt Lancaster is the Apache of the title and Victoe Mature played Crazy Horse. Both did a fine job but I doubt that such casting would be permitted to day and rightly so.
Apache is perhaps the better film, better scripted and better acted. Crazy Horse is ok but suffers from the need to insert a white guy in the story who is a friend of Crazy Horse. I dont think that such a character exiisted.
Many of the period westerns felt the need to have a white guy playing a heeroic role in films that were generally sympathetic to native americans. In fact thee were so many of them that I cant see how they got shafted by the US government.
Dances WIth Wolves is perhaps the most recent example of this. Even Iron Eyes Cody was an Italian pretending to be authentic.
Maybe it is time for these films to be remade with honest scripts and realistic characters. I am sure that there is a market for it and the talent is there to make it happen.
Donna Reed should not be playing "Indian" princesses.