Flaming Star
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Movie Reviews of Flaming Star
Movie Review: Western
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie offers a chance and shows Elvis is able to deliver a serious role. Heavy drama and making a statment. A good western and good for the family.Movie Review: Flaming Star with Elvis Presley
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a DVD that can be found with all the Elvis movies. I loved it, but then I loved most of his movies. Kinda dates me huh?
Movie Review: With only one song , this movie is a disappointment?
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is an early one where Elvis actually does some real acting and it is a Cowboy and Indian and half-breed movie.
Texas has an Indian uprising in 1878 of his mother's people:
his white older half brother and his father make his family half native American and they are caught between.
Tragedy results with loss of friends and family.
As I love Elvis's singing I miss there not being more
music, but the script is a grim tale of a lot of death and sorrow.
Movie Review: An overrated entertainer
Summary: 1 Stars
You have got to be kidding me. At which point do we not see a predictable line or reaction to Elvis' character? A half white and Kiowa settler that plays guitar for a square dancing shin-dig, while hated by whites and Indians alike, c'mon folks, let's get real here. Barbara Eden and Steve Forrest carried the film through some really insulting native scenes. What really seems crazy is in one scene towards the end, he is running around shirtless with the body of a flat-chested, 12 year old girl with the Indians as an Indian ally, and the next minute he is taking on Kiowa warriors like a one man killing machine.
When I showed this DVD to my 25 year old daughter, she thought it was a gay western like
"Brokeback Mountain" (come to think of it, he wore more eyeliner and makeup than Barbara Eden?) I had to explain to her that it was America's number one idol of all time to which she insisted he still looked like a homosexual.
Many of the standard Hollywood insults towards Indians here like broken English from Italian or Latino actors with names like "Buffalo Horn" and the oldie but goodie, "Two Moons"; everyone in the Indian village is dressed the SAME; the Indians practically laid down during fight scenes and were weak; all the women were painted as weak with Elvis being the only subservient man to his Kiowa mother and the Indians leader was depicted as stupid and "out there". The only realism about this film and perhaps the reasoning for this film is the ignorance and racism towards and about, the Indians, which still hasn't changed before or since this film. Sydney Pollacks comedy-western with Burt Lancaster during the same period, also about Italians playing Kiowas, "The Scalphunters", is far superior and less predictable.
Elvis should have played a code-talker, but then again, America at the time was still hiding its native heroes from the big red boogie man.