White Feather
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Movie Reviews of White Feather
Movie Review: Great Western
Summary: 5 Stars
This is great movie and a must have for anyone who loves the classic Western. Robert Wagner plays the leading role as surveyer Josh Tanner. Tanner befriends the young chief Little Dog of the Cheyenne (Jeffrey Hunter) and falls in love with the young chiefs sister played by Debra Paget. The Cheyenne and other tribes are to be moved from their Wyoming hunting grounds and John Lund as Colonel Lindsey leads U.S. army's push to resettle the indians. Tanner's attraction to the chiefs sister threatens to endanger a peaceful settlement. The highpoint of the tension between army and Cheyenne arrives when Little Dog and his friend American Horse send an arrow with a white feather their symbol to wager war.Movie Review: Top of the old westerns
Summary: 5 Stars
Being over sixty and seen a lot of westerns,I would say this was one of the better one's..Good to go back and see the old fifty's movie and remember how it was.....Movie Review: "It Was A Good Game" ~ Friendship, Love And Honor Amongst The Cheyenne
Summary: 4 Stars
As one would expect from a Hollywood feature film from the fifties ('55 to be exact) `White Feather' suffers from the usual maladies: stiff and somewhat unrealistic dialogue, a lot of dramatic posturing for effect purposes and the always disconcerting visual of white actors playing the role of Native Americans. However that is an unchangeable sign of that generation and if you're a fan of early films you've learned to accept the stylist difference and enjoy the many other aspects of a good film.
`White Feather' doesn't contain the numerous sequences that usually accompany a film categorized within the Western genre. The film is by in large a tale (according to the narration in the prologue and epilogue a factual story) of romance between two people from different cultures, one white (Robert Wagner as Josh Tanner) and one Native American (Debra Paget as Appearing Day). The backdrop of this love story concerns the impending signing of a peace treaty between the Cheyenne and the white usurpers that would displace the Native Americans from their rightful homeland and requires them to move south to less than greener pastures.
What this film lacks in fast paced action is more than made up for in overall strong performances by the entire cast and a surprisingly sensitive and poignant depiction of the plight of the Native American and the code of honor that the warrior lives by.
With all that said let me also admit that I've had a crush on Debra Paget as long as I can remember so any film she appears in will more likely than not get a higher rating then it would have otherwise. However in this case I think I would have recommended this one even in her absence.
Movie Review: Fact-Based Western
Summary: 4 Stars
Co-written by Delmer Daves (with Robert Townsend) and directed by Robert Webb, WHITE FEATHER (1955) is essentially a true story with a plot similar to BROKEN ARROW. In fact, it co-stars Debra Paget who also played the hero's Native American love interest in BROKEN ARROW.
Robert Wagner stars as Josh Tanner, a surveyor, sent to Fort Laramie to lay out a townsite, once a treaty has been signed with the Cheyenne. After a couple of tense encounters, he becomes friends with Little Dog (Jeffrey Hunter), son of Chief Broken Hand (Eduard Franz), and American Horse (Hugh O'Brian), both of whom oppose any treaty with the whites. He also falls in love with Appearing Day (Paget), who has been promised to American Horse.
Once Broken Hand signs the treaty, both Little Dog and American Horse send a white feather to the military commander (John Lund) of the fort, challenging him to war. It will be the two Cheyenne against the entire Army force, but if the military fires first, the entire tribe of Cheyenne may turn of them.
According to the film, the son of the characters played by Wagner and Paget (i.e. Chief Broken Hand's grandson) would attend the military academy at West Point.
Noah Beery, Jr. and Virginia Leith co-star in the movie.
© Michael B. Druxman
Movie Review: A good old fashioned oater
Summary: 4 Stars
Here you have a good old movie about love, history, racism, violence, did I say racism? and hate. You have the boy who meets girl and her racist brother and his friend. Boy almost loses girl when her brother tries to kill him in a big ego-centric rage that stems from a huge superiority complex. Well, all's well in the end... the brother makes the big sacrifice with his friend and then he goes on to be Marshall Urp on a long running TV show.
They just don't make westerns like this any more. Pure entertainment!
A bit of wooden acting from Wagner. His "Native American",(really, she's a white chick...),girl-friend is cute as a bug's ear... In spite of my first paragraph, this is a well made movie with just enough history, violence, message and love story to satisfy most who just want to relax and enjoy some fine acting.
I don't think this won any awards and it shouldn't have...except perhaps one for fun and enjoyment.