Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
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Reviled in his lifetime as a lunatic insurrectionist, Chief Crazy Horse has in recent years emerged as a Native American hero. In this off-beat western, unusual for its time in that it sympathetically presented the Native American viewpoint, Victor Mature plays the misunderstood Sioux leader while the treaty-breaking villain General Crook is played by James Millican (who had earlier portrayed an equally unsympathetic General Custer in Warpath). The battle of the Little Big Horn is staged with less bravura but more authenticity than in 1941's They Died With Their Boots On (a wildly inaccurate pro-Custer opus). Chief Crazy Horse falters only in its verbose dialogue sequences, wherein the native tongue of the Sioux seems to be Fluent Cliche. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Victor Mature - Crazy Horse
- John Lund - Maj. Twist
- Keith Larsen - Flying Hawk
- David Janssen - Lt. Colin Cartwright
- James Millican - Gen. Crook
- Don Randolph - Aaron Cartwright
- James Westerfield - Caleb Mantz
- Pat Hogan - Dull Knife
- John Peters - Sgt. Guthrie
- Charles Horvath - Hardy
- Robert St. Angelo - Sergeant
- Suzan Ball - Black Shawl
- Ray Danton - Little Big Man
- Paul Guilfoyle - Worni
- Robert Warwick - Spotted Tail
- Morris Ankrum - Red Cloud/Conquering Bear
- Robert Simon - Jeff Mantz
- Stuart Randall - Old Man Afraid
- Dennis Weaver - Maj. Carlisle
- Henry Wills - He Dog
- David Miller - Lieutenant
- Director(s):
- George Sherman
- Writer(s):
- Franklin Coen, Gerald Drayson Adams
- Producer(s):
- William Alland
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