Sitting Bull (1954)

Directed by

Sidney Salkow

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells a heavily fictionalized story of the conflict between Sitting Bull and the U.S. Army, leading to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It portrays Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in a sympathetic light.

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What happens

Sitting Bull is a 1954 American-Mexican Eastmancolor Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and René Cardona that was filmed in Mexico in CinemaScope. In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts the war between Sitting Bull and the American forces, leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand. It was the first independent production to be filmed in the CinemaScope process. Featuring sympathetic portrayals of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, The New York Times called it a "Crazy Horse opera". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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