Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
Acting
Anthony Quinn commits to absolute chaos with tragic gravity.
Direction
Carol Reed's oddball late-career curveball — British eye on American wounds.
Writing
Political satire that bites harder than its 'comedy' label suggests.
Director
Carol Reed
Anthony Quinn
Flapping Eagle
Claude Akins
Lobo Jackson
Tony Bill
Eleven Snowflake
Shelley Winters
Dorothy Bluebell
Victor Jory
Wounded Bear Mr. Smith (Attorney at Law)
Victor French
Sgt. Rafferty (Sheriff's Dept.)
Rodolfo Acosta
Mr. Storekeeper / Ann's Father
Susana Miranda
Ann Looking Deer
Anthony Caruso
Silver Dollar (Tribal Chief)
Robert Cleaves
Gus Kirk
Nadia Sanders
Annette (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carol Reed made this immediately after Oliver! — from Oscar-winning musical to this oddity. The whiplash.
Released months after the actual Alcatraz occupation ended; the tagline brazenly piggybacks on real indigenous activism it barely engages.
US
