Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

Directed by

Lew Landers

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An English settler named John Smith and a Native American woman named Pocahontas meet in colonial Virginia. Their relationship plays out against the founding of Jamestown.

old-fashionedromanticizedadventurousbriskly pacedearnestmelodramaticnostalgiccampy

What happens

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas is a 1953 American historical Western film directed by Lew Landers. The distributor was United Artists. It stars Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance and Alan Hale. While most scenes were filmed in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains region, exteriors were shot around Bronson Canyon. It depicts the foundation of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia by English settlers and the relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas. She married John Rolfe in real life. It is also known by the alternative title Burning Arrows. Regarded as a B movie, the film has gained a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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