The Indian (1970)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Indian |
| Original title | Flap Nobody Loves Flapping Eagle (working title) |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carol Reed |
| script | Clair Huffaker |
| production | Jerry Adler |
| music | Marvin Hamlisch |
| camera | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| cut | Frank Bracht |
| occupation | |
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The Indian is a 1969 American tragic comedy by Carol Reed , whose penultimate theatrical production was this. Anthony Quinn can be seen in the title role . The story is based on the novel Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker , who also wrote the script.
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In a dilapidated Indian reservation in the southwest of the contemporary (1969) United States: Flapping Eagle, often called "Flap" for short, lives life to the fullest. He drinks unrestrainedly and fights, likes to go overboard and argues extensively with his lover, the white woman Dorothy Bluebell. His avowed favorite enemy is the local, narrow-minded and prejudiced Sergeant Rafferty, who embodies the police force of New Mexico in the nearest town. The Indian is looking for a loud argument with the law enforcement officer. After a series of mutual insults one day, Rafferty is badly beaten by Flap. It is not the first time that he has come across the interior of the city prison. But Flap's popularity in his own ranks grows immeasurably with each of his little rebellions; he and his five most important Indian friends never want to give in to the "white man" again.
Flapping Eagle raises his solid provocation more and more and one day comes up with the crazy idea to take on the whole of the United States of America. He resists all efforts to take possession of further Indian land planned by the “white man” and organizes a protest against approaching bulldozers that are supposed to prepare new buildings. Then Flap “commandeered” a whole train after the Indian attorney Wounded Bear had credibly assured him that everything that was on Indian territory would also belong to the Indians. The situation escalated when Flapping Eagle organized a protest march against the state and government. Flap became known and popular nationwide as "the last Indian warrior" and is now receiving loud encouragement from other parts of the United States. During the protest march towards the city, against which Rafferty had expressly warned his opponent, the police shot Sergeant Flap out of the window of a hospital.
Production notes
The Indian was filmed in several New Mexico Indian reservations and settlements in 1969 and premiered in November 1970 in both the United States and London. The German premiere was on January 8, 1971.
The film structures were designed by Art Loel and Mort Rabinowitz , the equipment was provided by Ralph S. Hurst .
Reviews
The Movie & Video Guide said, “You should be sorry for Flapping Eagle, but the script is so weak that there is a chance it won't. Sometimes funny, but should actually be tragic. "
Halliwell's Film Guide saw the film as an "unlovable comedy with an attached, tragic ending" and found that the film was neither "entertaining as a quirky farce nor as a social conscience".
"One of the last and weakest films (1969) Carol Reeds ('The Third Man'): Leading actor Anthony Quinn makes a farce out of the story of a reservation Indian who fights for the rights of his tribal brothers."
"On the foil of a modern western, tragic comedy with documentary features and excellent staging, but the furious wit and rousing slapstick sometimes inappropriately limit the social, tragic dimension of the film."
Web links
- The Indian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flap on allemovie.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 435
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 356
- ^ The Indian in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on October 5, 2018