The Dark Wind (1991)

Directed by

Errol Morris

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Navajo police officer investigates a series of unusual crimes on a reservation in the Southwest. The story follows his attempts to solve the mysteries while navigating the cultural and personal tensions around him.

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What happens

The Dark Wind is a 1991 American mystery drama film based on The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman, one of a series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. Directed by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in his fiction debut, it stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee and Fred Ward as Joe Leaphorn. Robert Redford acted as executive producer, hoping for a series of films, but was ultimately unhappy with the result, which he called "a false start", "miscast" and "ill-conceived", and it was not distributed. However, Redford would persist in his efforts to adapt Hillerman's books, acting as executive producer on the film Skinwalkers in 2002, and on the television series Dark Winds (2022–present), which would be his final work. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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