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Walk the Proud Land

  • 19561956
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 28m
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6.6/10
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Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, and Pat Crowley in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Based upon the true story of John Philip Clum (Audie Murphy), Walk the Proud Land is one of the few Westerns of the 1950's to take a sympathetic and historically accurate view of the Native American Indian's fight with the white settlers. Clum is an Indian agent sent to the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona in 1874 to prevent further bloodshed and stop the renegade chief Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) from encouraging young Indian braves to take up their weapons and fight once more. Clum's struggle is made worse by the townsfolk and cavalry who believe that the only good Indian is a scalped one. But whilst Clum makes enemies of the governor, cavalry officers and the more headstrong Apache braves, he begins to win the trust of the elders by talking of the government's new peace plan for Indian autonomy rather than submission. Ann Bancroft plays Tianay, the beautiful Indian widow who cleans the house for Clum and gradually falls in love with him. But when Clum brings his young fiancée from back East (Pat Crowley) to marry him, and the young Apaches think that Tianay should keep to her own race, the spark of an uprising is lit and Clum must put his life on the line to prevent the reservation from siding with Geronimo.
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An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for ... Read allAn agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
986
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POPULARITY
49,380
34,761
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    • Director
      • Jesse Hibbs
    • Writers
      • Gil Doud(screenplay)
      • Jack Sher(screenplay)
      • Woodworth Clum(biography)
    • Stars
      • Audie Murphy
      • Anne Bancroft
      • Pat Crowley
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    • Director
      • Jesse Hibbs
    • Writers
      • Gil Doud(screenplay)
      • Jack Sher(screenplay)
      • Woodworth Clum(biography)
    • Stars
      • Audie Murphy
      • Anne Bancroft
      • Pat Crowley
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    • 15User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews

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    Walk the Proud Land (1956)
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    Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Jay Silverheels, and Robert Warwick in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
    Audie Murphy, Pat Crowley, and Charles Drake in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
    Audie Murphy and Charles Drake in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
    Audie Murphy, Pat Crowley, and Charles Drake in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
    Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, and Tommy Rall in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
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    Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, and Pat Crowley in Walk the Proud Land (1956)
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    Audie Murphy
    Audie Murphy
    • John Philip Clum
    Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft
    • Tianay
    Pat Crowley
    Pat Crowley
    • Mary Dennison
    Charles Drake
    Charles Drake
    • Tom Sweeny
    Tommy Rall
    Tommy Rall
    • Taglito
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • Chief Eskiminzin
    Jay Silverheels
    Jay Silverheels
    • Geronimo
    Eugene Mazzola
    Eugene Mazzola
    • Tono
    Anthony Caruso
    Anthony Caruso
    • Disalin
    Victor Millan
    Victor Millan
    • Santos
    Ainslie Pryor
    Ainslie Pryor
    • Capt. Larsen
    Eugene Iglesias
    Eugene Iglesias
    • Chato
    Morris Ankrum
    Morris Ankrum
    • Gen. Wade
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    • Gov. Safford
    Maurice Jara
    • Alchise
    Frank Chase
    • Stone
    Ed Hinton
    • Naylor
    Marty Carrizosa
    • Pica
    • Director
      • Jesse Hibbs
    • Writers
      • Gil Doud(screenplay)
      • Jack Sher(screenplay)
      • Woodworth Clum(biography)
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    • Goofs
      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.
    • Quotes

      Tianay: He is a man. Strong. The way my husband was strong. For such a man there should be warmth from a woman. She should bend to his will the way a tree bends with the wind. She must put his life before her own. For it is the woman who must give the man strength, so that he may give to others.

    • Connections
      Referenced in What's My Line?: Miss Universe 1956 Carol Morris & Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (1956)

    User reviews15

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    5/10
    Clum's story is worth more than this.
    The narrative of John P. Clum's broadly varied activities is one of the most dramatic in U.S. history, his tenure as Indian Agent at Arizona's San Carlos Reservation, 1874/77, being particularly noteworthy and forming the subject of this film starring war hero Audie Murphy as Clum. During his assignment to San Carlos, Clum established the first Indian tribal police and court system, using the former to capture the wily Geronimo, convincing the renegade that he was surrounded by a large group of warriors, far from the case. By accomplishing all of this and more, Clum eliminated any possible requirement for continued deployment of a United States Army cavalry regiment at San Carlos, which erased profits from provisioning for the Army and made Clum's presence less than heaven-sent for the mounted troopers. WALK THE PROUD LAND is based upon incidents to be found within Woodworth Clum's 1936 biography of his father, which is the principal source for the screenplay written by the capable pair of Gil Doud and Jack Sher. Unfortunately, Doud ("To Hell and Back") and Sher ("Shane") fail to utilize the most dramatic elements of Clum's story, replacing them with a collection of banal contrivances which serve only to dissipate the feature's impact. Filmed with the wide-screen Cinemascope process, and with sublime Technicolor, the work is delightful to the eye, and benefits as well from the stylish efforts of costumer Bill Thomas. A top-notch performance is given by Anne Bancroft as an Apache warrior's widow who is "given" by the tribe's chief to Clum and who becomes his strongest ally against the Agent's enemies from within both the cavalry and the tribe. Audie Murphy's native earnestness is very effective in his portrayal of Clum, with his palpable lack of emotive flexibility being of no consideration here, and he is well supported by Bancroft, sturdy Charles Drake as his closest comrade, winsome Pat Crowley as his wife, Tommy Rall as his Indian blood brother, and character actors Addison Richards and Morris Ankrum. Many good hands were not utilized properly during the creation of this film, and since Clum's travails were largely for nought, Geronimo being released by his successor, leading to nearly 15 years of unabated Indian wars, a bittersweet and indeed revelatory quality would have been more effective in lieu of numerous scenes depicting lamely comedic children and romantic frippery that have no basis in fact.
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    • rsoonsa
    • Aug 26, 2002

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    • Release date
      • September 1956 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ritt in den Tod
    • Filming locations
      • Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal International Pictures (UI)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,500,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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