Movies : Western : DVD Rip : English
No-nonsense writer-director Sam Fuller apparently didn't enjoy Rod Steiger's method approach to his character, O'Meara, a Southern soldier who fires the last shot in the Civil War, rejects his people and heads west to join the Sioux.
Gradually O'Meara is accepted, but when - in the movie's climax - a man captured by the Sioux does not survive the run of the arrow (a headstart given before a chase to the death) and is caught to be flayed alive, O'Meara shoots him with a bullet kept from the war. In crisis he is unable to accept the Sioux culture and returns home.
A powerful, thought-provoking western featuring fine performance from Ralph Meeker as a General Custer clone and a young Charles Bronson as Blue Buffalo.
Several film historians, notably the late William K. Everson, have noted the striking resemblances between Run of the Arrow and the 1990 Oscar-winner Dances with Wolves.
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