Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Anthony Quinn | ... | Flapping Eagle | |
Claude Akins | ... | Lobo Jackson | |
Tony Bill | ... | Eleven Snowflake | |
Shelley Winters | ... | Dorothy Bluebell | |
Victor Jory | ... | Wounded Bear Mr. Smith | |
Don Collier | ... | Mike Lyons | |
Victor French | ... | Rafferty | |
Rodolfo Acosta | ... | Storekeeper | |
Susana Miranda | ... | Ann Looking Deer | |
Anthony Caruso | ... | Silver Dollar | |
William Mims | ... | Steve Gray | |
Rudy Diaz | ... | Larry Standing Elk | |
Pedro Regas | ... | She'll-Be-Back-Pretty-Soon | |
John War Eagle | ... | Luke Wolf | |
J. Edward McKinley | ... | Harris |
A hard-drinking, reckless-living Indian named Flapping Eagle decides that his people have been pushed around by the white man long enough. Mounting his horse H-Bomb, Flap proceeds to hijack a railroad, lasso a helicopter, and begin the Last Great Indian Uprising. His assaults on the Establishment provide an earnest indictment of Indian neglect by the U.S. government. Written by alfiehitchie
This movie shows somewhat of an Indian resistance movement before the American Indian Movement of 1973. I never read the book "Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian", but it sounds like a good book. It was probably better than this movie. This movie might have been better with more Indian actors in it, but, then, would it have had enough star power to attract viewers? Now for the movie: I remember a 1940s Chevrolet truck in it. There was a horse that was hard to ride with a saddle on it. An Indian destroys a white man's bulldozer, but later some Indians get together with the owner for a bender. It seems the Indians had an old deed or treaty that gave them title to the land under a city. Seems like maybe the city was Phoenix. Some Indians go to the city to serve notice. Will they get very far?