Walk the Proud Land (1956)

Director:

Jesse Hibbs

Writers:

Gil Doud (screenplay)
Jack Sher (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

September 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Western

Tagline:

Out of the pages of the West's most thrilling history comes the saga of Indian Agent John Philip Clum ...whose Faith built a fortress in a wilderness of hate...and tamed the fury of Geronimo's last desperate stand!

Plot:

Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army...

Cast

Audie Murphy	...	John Philip Clum
Anne Bancroft	...	Tianay
Pat Crowley	...	Mary Dennison
Charles Drake	...	Tom Sweeny
Tommy Rall	...	Taglito
Robert Warwick	...	Chief Eskiminzin
Jay Silverheels	...	Geronimo
Eugene Mazzola	...	Tono
Anthony Caruso	...	Disalin
Victor Millan	...	Santos
Ainslie Pryor	...	Capt. Larsen
Eugene Iglesias	...	Chato
Morris Ankrum	...	Gen. Wade
Addison Richards	...	Gov. Safford
Maurice Jara	...	Alchise

Also Known As:

Apache Agent

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Goofs:

Continuity: In the knife fight scene where Clum breaks up the war dance, his opponent slashes at Clum and hits a tree. When the two separate, the knife is obviously pulled from the tree. In the next scene the two are on the ground fighting, but the knife is stuck in the tree.

Only heard of John Clum before in Wyatt Earp movies.

Saw this movie years ago and recently taped it for my collection as a worthwhile Western movie. It took me a long time to catch on that this was the same John P. Clum that you hear mentioned in the many, many TV shows and movies in all western movies relating to Wyatt Earp, as Editor of the Tombstone Epitaph. I think I can name about 10, starting with Richard Dix "The Town Too Tough to Die" about 1939. John Clum must have been a very intelligent man to be chosen as an Indian agent, and then later have the ability to run a newspaper in Tombstone. The end of the movie gave the impression, after the old Indian Chief had a talk with him, that he might stay but he did not. We were not told the year this Agent was active at San Carlos, but we know Clum was established in Tombstone by 1880, so there is nothing on his life in between. Clum made history when he wrote of the Gunfight at the OK Corral on October 27, 1881. Copies of the original newspaper can still be purchased in Tombstone. I got mine Oct 2001 on a trip, and some extras for my old fogy buddies who still play "cowboys".