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8 July 1958 (USA) morePlot:
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Natvie American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Needed more humor and heart--and less of Fess Parker moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Fess Parker | ... | Del Hardy |
| Wendell Corey | ... | Wilse Owens |
| Joanne Dru | ... | Milly Elder |
 | James MacArthur | ... | Johnny Butler / True Son |
| Jessica Tandy | ... | Myra Butler |
| John McIntire | ... | John Elder |
| Joseph Calleia | ... | Chief Cuyloga |
| Carol Lynley | ... | Shenandoe |
| Rafael Campos | ... | Half Arrow |
| Frank Ferguson | ... | Harry Butler |
| Dean Fredericks | ... | Niskitoon (as Norman Frederic) |
 | Marian Seldes | ... | Kate Owens |
| Stephen Bekassy | ... | Col. Henry Bouquet |
| Sam Buffington | ... | George Owens |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dorothy Hack | ... | Indian girl |
| Herman Hack | ||
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James MacArthur in an early role as a young white man in the 1760s who was raised by Indians before being traded back to his people, whose customs now have left him alienated and sullen. MacArthur has a great masculine stance and a firm jaw--and he's unhurt by his Mohawk haircut--but he's perhaps too rigid. The character might've stood some silly, self-effacing moments. Everything is taken with the utmost seriousness, but where's the heart of this piece? And with whom should our sympathies lie? I guess hammy Fess Parker relieves some of the tension in this solemn scenario, but more of him amounts to less. Young Carol Lynley (playing a white girl named, of all things, Shenandoe!) is very lovely flirting with MacArthur, and looks like Alice in Wonderland in her apron-dresses. Well-produced Walt Disney effort given a by-the-book treatment, as if it were written and directed by stodgy history professors. ** from ****