Rent Walk the Proud Land (1956)
3.4 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
Based upon the true story of John Philip Clum (Audie Murphy), 'Walk the Proud Land' is one of the few Westerns of the 1950's to take a sympathetic and historically accurate view of the Native American Indian's fight with the white settlers. Clum is an Indian agent sent to the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona in 1874 to prevent further bloodshed , and stop the renegade chief Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) from encouraging young Indian braves to take up their weapons and fight once more. Clum's struggle is made worse by the townsfolk and cavalry who believe that the only good Indian is a scalped one. But whilst Clum makes enemies of the governor, cavalry officers and the more headstrong Apache braves, he begins to win the trust of the elders by talking of the government's new peace plan for Indian autonomy rather than submission. Ann Bancroft plays Tianay, the beautiful Indian widow who cleans the house for Clum and gradually falls in love with him. But when Clum brings his young fiancee from back East (Pat Crowley) to marry him, and the young Apaches think that Tianay should keep to her own race, the spark of an uprising is lit and Clum must put his life on the line to prevent the reservation from siding with Geronimo... - Actors:
- Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley, Charles Drake, Tommy Rall, Robert Warwick, Jay Silverheels, Eugene Mazzola, Anthony Caruso, Victor Millan, Ainslie Pryor, Eugene Iglesias, Morris Ankrum, Addison Richards, Maurice Jara
- Directors:
- Jesse Hibbs
- Producers:
- Aaron Rosenberg
- Writers:
- Gil Doud, Jack Sher, Woodworth Clum
- Aka:
- Apache Agent
- Studio:
- Odeon Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
