Sitting Bull (1954)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Sidney Salkow

Writers:

Jack DeWitt (screenplay) and
Sidney Salkow (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 October 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence...

Plot Keywords:

Sitting Bull | Native American | American Indian | Sioux Wars | Ulysses Simpson Grant

Cast

Dale Robertson	...	Major Robert 'Bob' Parrish
Mary Murphy	...	Kathy Howell
J. Carrol Naish	...	Sitting Bull
John Litel	...	Gen. Wilford Howell
Joel Fluellen	...	Sam
Iron Eyes Cody	...	Crazy Horse
John Hamilton	...	President Ulysses S. Grant
Douglas Kennedy	...	Col. Custer
William Tannen	...	O'Connor
William Hopper	...	Charles Wentworth (as Bill Hopper)
Thomas Browne Henry	...	Indian Agent Webber (as Tom Brown Henry)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA | Mexico

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System) | 4-Track Stereo

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #17128, General Audience) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

W.R. Frank Productions

Trivia:

J. Carrol Naish's portrayal of Sitting Bull was adapted into cartoon form by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as Crazy Coyote in a Huckleberry Hound cartoon.

Soundtrack:

Great Spirit

TMC blew it on this one

They said that this was one of the most factual accounts of the Battle of Little BigHorn.

The movie was crap.

It had Iron Eyes Cody as the Indian adviser. He is and Italian Actor that pretended that he was an Indian. The portrayal of the Sioux was comical. I half expected that Mel Brooks would make a cameo as an Indian Chief. Everything about the Indians was wrong. A two year old could have made better props. There have been much better and more factual depictions of this event.

In short if this comes on find something else to watch!