Actors: stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief
Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey, Richard Mulligan
Rating: 8 out of 10, Another visit to the
movies of my youth and while this hasn’t aged as well as some others it’s still
a lot of fun to watch. Hoffman is superb as the 121 year old Jack Crab recounting
his adventures being raised by the plains Indians and then watching their
culture destroyed over the course of his life. There’s a lot of subtle humor
woven throughout the script and it truly soars when Chief Dan George is on the
screen. It’s virulently anti-military which is understandable at the height of
the Vietnam War. Hoffman moves chameleon like through a wide variety of life
callings, running into some of the old west’s biggest names in the process. The
funniest parts are the Cheyenne brave whose life is defined by trying to outdo
Crab only to fail.
MVP: Chief Dan George as Old Lodge Skins
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