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The Indian Fighter (1955)A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter. Director:André De Toth |
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| Kirk Douglas | ... |
Johnny Hawks
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| Elsa Martinelli | ... |
Onahti
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| Walter Matthau | ... |
Wes Todd
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| Diana Douglas | ... |
Susan Rogers
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| Walter Abel | ... |
Captain Trask
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| Lon Chaney Jr. | ... |
Chivington
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| Eduard Franz | ... | ||
| Alan Hale Jr. | ... |
Will Crabtree
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| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... |
Briggs
(as Elisha Cook)
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| Ray Teal | ... |
Morgan
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| Frank Cady | ... |
Trader Joe
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Michael Winkelman | ... |
Tommy Rogers
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William Phipps | ... |
Lt. Blake
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Harry Landers | ... |
Grey Wolf /
Captain Trask Attaché
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| Hank Worden | ... |
Crazy Bear /
Guardhouse Keeper
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Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... Unscrupulous whisky traders are after the gold on Indian land. Hawks averts serious bloodshed by convincing Red Cloud to make a treaty... Hawks leads an Oregon-bound wagon train through Indian territory. When he slips away to see the chief's daughter, trouble between braves and whisky traders flares up anew, putting the wagon train and the nearby fort in peril... Written by David Woodfield
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2 March 1956 (Belgium) See more »Also Known As:
Indian Fighter See more »Filming Locations:
Bend, Oregon, USACompany Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Johnny Hawks: You've grown a big mouth since I saw you last, Grey Wolf, but I didn't come here to talk to a big mouth. I've come to talk to a big man.
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Kirk Douglas did most of his own horse riding and, at one point, broke his nose attempting a stunt that called for him to make his horse fall. Instead of leaning back in the saddle when yanking the horse's head around to the side, Douglas leaned forward and took the full force of the horse's heavy head right in the face. See more »Goofs
In the beginning of the film, after Red Cloud shows to Johnny Hawks two men hung by the feet, Hawks stands talking to Red Cloud and Grey Wolf. Then his hands appears either grabbing the holster or by his sides, alternately, when it cuts from one shot to another. See more »Quotes
Grey Wolf: There can be no friendship between Red Man and White. The fight is to the end. Ride back to your people. There is no room for you here.Johnny Hawks: You've grown a big mouth since I saw you last, Grey Wolf, but I didn't come here to talk to a big mouth. I've come to talk to a big man.
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I've always enjoyed Kirk Douglas films in general and he's usually very good in westerns. But The Indian Fighter quite frankly is a pumped up B western.
Kirk produced this one as well and was able to get a good cast of familiar faces in westerns. He even got his ex-wife, Diana Douglas to appear as a widow traveling west on a wagon train with her son.
Kirk Douglas is Johnny Hawks who is a scout guiding a wagon train west to Oregon. The film opens with him checking out the naked Elsa Martinelli taking a bath in a creek. Pleasure before business and he continues on to the village where he finds out Elsa is the daughter of Chief Eduard Franz.
And that sets the tone for the film. When Douglas should be concerned about the safety of the people he's working for, he's off trying to court Elsa. His preoccupation with her almost causes disaster to the train.
Action there is though, including a nicely staged Indian attack on an army post. And the whole film was shot in Oregon on location quite nicely. I believe some of this same area was used in Kirk Douglas's later western The Way West.
Kirk Douglas's heroes are usually flawed and quite three dimensional. But this film has a hero I could not really get a rooting interest for.