Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Xavier Koller

Writer (WGA):

Darlene Craviotto (written by)

Release Date:

28 October 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Biography | Drama | Family

Plot:

Historically inaccurate chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

Plot Keywords:

Squanto | England | Tribe | Boat | Monastery

Cast

Adam Beach	...	Squanto
Sheldon Peters Wolfchild	...	Mooshawset
Irene Bedard	...	Nakooma
Eric Schweig	...	Epenow
Leroy Peltier	...	Pequod
Michael Gambon	...	Sir George
Nathaniel Parker	...	Thomas Dermer
Alex Norton	...	Harding
Mark Margolis	...	Capt. Hunt
Julian Richings	...	Sir George's Servant
Mandy Patinkin	...	Brother Daniel
Donal Donnelly	...	Brother Paul
Stuart Pankin	...	Brother Timothy
Paul Klementowicz	...	Brother James
Bray Poor	...	Dr. Fuller

Also Known As:

The Last Great Warrior (International: English title)

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:PG | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Louisbourg Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Angels' Revenge (#7.22)" (1995)

Soundtrack:

Sarah Was Ninety Years Old

Noble Savagery

The great Michael Gambon is totally wasted in 'The Last Great Warrior', an account of the settlement of America as one-dimensionally partisan as its title suggests. No-one is saying that the English did not do terrible things when they settled the American continent, but to suggest that the natives lived in some kind of paradisical bliss is equally absurd; moreover, the film supplements this simplification with a dangerously inaccurate implication, namely that the only good Englishmen were the ones who settled America! (bizarrely, the bad Englishmen kill all the natives with their diseases, while the Pilgrim Fathers live happily and healthily beside them). Granted, this is a children's film, but there's more depth and characterisation in an average episode of 'The Hoobs' than in this. But oddly, its flaws are no worse than those of supposedly sophisticated films like 'The Last of the Mohicans'. Smug liberalism may be preferable to the racist superiority of the John Wayne era; but how sadly rare it is to see a "Western" (to which genre this film essentially belongs, in spite of its east coast setting) that goes beyond a game of goodies and baddies. 'The Last Great Warrior' most certainly does not.