Pony Soldier

Pony Soldier is a 1952 Technicolor Northern Western set in Canada but filmed in Sedona, Arizona. It is based on a 1951 Saturday Evening Post story Mounted Patrol by Garnett Weston. It was retitled MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties in England and The Last Arrow in France and Spain.

In addition to negotiating with the Cree, MacDonald of the Mounted rescues white hostages Robert Horton and Penny Edwards arrests a murderer, and adopts a Cree son Anthony Earl Numkena.Director Newman originally scouted locations in Montana but finding nothing he thought suitable, the film was made in Sedona, Arizona. During development of the project, technical advisor on Native American issues, Nipo T. Strongheart, wrote a critical review of the proposed screenplay, even though other departments of the studio had begun work on it. This led to a meeting with studio executives which, though he described it as feeling like he was called to the principals office, led to a major reconstruction of the whole project. Strongheart worked with the Cree people and their language, and couched nonIndian and Indian actors throughout the movie. During the filming at Sedona, production was interrupted by snowstorms and the flash of a nuclear weapon tested 300 miles away in Nevada. The producers recruited 450 Navajo to play Cree when large numbers were needed. Strongheart, who also plays a Medicine Man in the film also toured to promote the movie. Strongheart had appeared in the film Braveheart with Tyrone Power Sr. ........

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