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Silent Tongue (1993)

 -  Drama | Horror | Western  -  27 January 1995 (UK)
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Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

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Eamon McCree
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Prescott Roe
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Talbot Roe
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Reeves McCree
Sheila Tousey ...
Awbonnie / Ghost
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Velada McCree
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Bland Simpson ...
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It's 1873, Indian Territory. Talbot Roe is going mad with grief over losing his Indian wife, Awbonnie. In an effort to save him, his father, Prescott Roe, seeks to purchase the dead wife's sister, Velada, from the same traveling carnival he acquired Awbonnie. The girls' father, carnival master Eamon McCree, is willing to do business, but her step-brother, Reeves, protests, putting an end to the negotiation. Desperate, Prescott kidnaps Velada and promises her the means to be rid of her father in return for comforting Talbot out of his obsession. In Talbot's madness, he guards his wife's corpse, preventing her from passing to the beyond. As a result, Awbonnie's ghost begins haunting and cursing everyone involved in the transaction of selling her as a wife. Meanwhile, Reeves and Eamon search the prairie for Velada. Drunken Eamon several times wants to turn back and leave his daughter to her own devices, but Reeves refuses. At the site of a hunting party of Indians, Eamon panics and loses... Written by Shoomado

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corpse | horse | sister | grief | haunting | See more »

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Justice can never be silenced.

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Drama | Horror | Western

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Rated PG-13 for ghostly terror and some violence | See all certifications »

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27 January 1995 (UK)  »

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Ghost Rider - Indian Magic  »

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$61,274 (USA)
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The final film that features River Phoenix (he died less that four months before the film's release from a drug overdose). See more »

Quotes

Reeves McCree: You've got a lot of salt calling yourself a father at all.
Eamon McCree: It was forced upon me by cruel nature. I never had a say in the business. No, sir! A father is not my calling in this life.
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"Little Acrobat's Song"
Music and Lyrics by Tommy Thompson and Jack Herrick
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A great movie
28 October 2001 | by (Austria) – See all my reviews

This movie is great. Great actors (watch out for Tantoo Cardinal!), great script, photography and *great* score!! If you enjoy slow, atmospheric films like "Picnic at Hanging Rock", you will like this one, too! A soundtrack album and a DVD release would be really appreciated, not only by River Phoenix fans!


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