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Release Date: 1954 Cast: Douglas Kennedy, Dale Robertson, J. Carrol Naish, Mary Murphy, Iron Eyes Cody, John Litel, John Hamilton
Categories: Movies, Western, Indian Western, Cavalry Film Sitting Bull is a 1954 Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and René Cardona that was filmed in Mexico in CinemaScope. In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts the war between Chief Sitting Bull and the American forces, leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand. It was the first independent production to be filmed in the CinemaScope process. Featuring sympathetic portrayals of Chief Sitting Bull and Chief Crazy Horse, The New York Times called it a "Crazy Horse Opera".
Major Robert Parrish of the 7th Cavalry is considered by some to be his own worst enemy... MORE
Sitting Bull is a 1954 Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and René Cardona that was filmed in Mexico in CinemaScope. In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts the war between Chief Sitting Bull and the American forces, leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand. It was the first independent production to be filmed in the CinemaScope process. Featuring sympathetic portrayals of Chief Sitting Bull and Chief Crazy Horse, The New York Times called it a "Crazy Horse Opera".
Major Robert Parrish of the 7th Cavalry is considered by some to be his own worst enemy due to his not being a "team player". Formerly one of the youngest Colonels in the Union Army during the War Between the States he is now a company commander under Colonel, formerly General George Custer. His fiancée Kathy, the daughter of Parrish's Commanding General, breaks off their engagement thinking him a loser because he has not risen in rank.
Parrish gains no friends amongst the civilian community when he chastises them and threatens to "break heads" when they violate Sioux lands. Custer and Parrish's exasperated General and once prospective father in law reassigns Parrish and his company LESS
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