Warner Bros.
Directed by Carol Reed
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Disappointing Carol Reed comedy-drama about the plight of modern day Indians in America. Unfortunately, the film perpetuates the very stereotypes it is trying to fight. Quinn and company are constantly drunk and performing petty criminal acts. They justify their actions by appealing to out-dated treaties and the fact that the white man "owes it to them". Maybe they do, but they are going about in completely the wrong way. A tragedy pushes them to one final showdown with the politicians and lawyers, which leads them to march on the city. It's never funny and actually quite pathetic.
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