The Return of a Man Called Horse *** (1976,Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8373

After the 1970 A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris’s 19th-century English gentleman John Morgan, known as Horse, comes back to the American West and undergoes the sun-vow ritual again for the sake of trying to save his adoptive Sioux Indian tribe from extinction – and for the sake of a sequel, the 1976 Western The Return of a Man Called Horse.

Director Irvin Kershner gives polish to an unexpectedly classy sequel, with performances as robust as the yarn, plus beautiful photography from Owen Roizman and fine, swirling, stirring score from Laurence Rosenthal.

Brutal scenes are to the fore in this tough Western. Jack DeWitt’s screenplay is based on a character from Dorothy M Johnson’s novel A Man Called Horse.

Also in the cast are as Gale Sondergaard as Elk Woman, Geoffrey Lewis as Zenas, Bill Lucking [William Lucking], Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucerco, Claudio Brook, Jorge Russek, Ana de Sade, Pedro Damien and Patricia Reyes.

It was filmed in Custer State Park, South Dakota; Mexico and Arizona.

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