A Man Called Horse (film)
A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American Western film starring Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein. Based on a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse, published in 1950 in Colliers magazine and again in 1968 in Johnsons book Indian Country. The basic story was used in a 1958 episode of the Wagon Train TV show entitled A Man Called Horse. Partially spoken in Sioux, the film tells the history of an English aristocrat, John Morgan, who is captured by a Native American tribe.
Determining that his only chance of freedom is to gain the respect of the tribe, he overcomes his repugnance and kills two warriors from the neighboring enemy Shoshone tribe, which allows him to claim warrior status. After his victory, he proposes marriage to one of the women with the horses taken in battle as brideprice and undergoes painful initiation rites, taking the native name Shunkawakan or Horse as his Sioux name.When one of the warriors takes a vow never to retreat in battle, Morgans changing perspective is shown, as he turns angrily on the uncomprehending Baptiste, telling him Five years youve lived here, and youve learned nothing about these people all his death is to you is a means of escape. ........
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