Silent Tongue (1994)
- Starring:
- Alan Bates, Richard Harris, (more)
- Director(s):
- Sam Shepard
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
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Playwright Sam Shepard wrote and directed this bizarre combination of western film revisionism and Greek tragedy. Silent Tongue (Tantoo Cardinal) is a mute Kiowa who is raped by Eamon McCree (Alan Bates), the owner of the Kickapoo Traveling Medicine Show. Eamon attempts to make up for his crime by marrying her, hoping for forgiveness. Instead, Silent Tongue enacts a bitter retribution through her two daughters, Awbonnie (Sheila Tousey) and Velada (Jeri Arredondo). Awbonnie, as the film begins, has already died, but her grieving husband Talbot (River Phoenix) refuses to let her go, dragging around her corpse. To assuage Talbot, his father Prescott (Richard Harris) sets out to purchase Velada from Eamon, thinking that only Awbonnie's sister can replace her in Talbot's eyes. But Velada's half-brother Reeves (Dermot Mulroney) protests the attempted transaction. As a result, Prescott kidnaps Velada and flees, with not only Reeves and Eamon chasing him, but also Awbonnie's ghost. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Alan Bates - Eamon McCree
- Dermot Mulroney - Reeves McCree
- Sheila Tousey - Awbonnie/Ghost
- David Shiner - Straight Man
- Billy Beck - Petrified Man
- Red Clay Ramblers
- Lynn Davis - Prairie Girl
- William Irwin - Comic
- Fred Maio - Owner
- Richard Harris - Prescott Roe
- River Phoenix - Talbot Roe
- Jeri Arredondo - Velada McCree
- Tantoo Cardinal - Silent Tongue
- Arturo Gil - Little Person Acrobat #1
- Tommy Thompson - Medicine Show Band Performer
- Jack Herrick - Medicine Show Band Performer
- Joseph S. Griffo - Little Person Acrobat #2
- Timothy Scott - The Lone Man
- Director(s):
- Sam Shepard
- Writer(s):
- Sam Shepard
- Producer(s):
- Bill Yahraus, Jacques Fansten, Ludi Boeken
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
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