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Editorial Review:
American Indians were a "cool" factor in 1970 cinema, the year A Man Called Horse made its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Man and Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horse is less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing savage initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horse looks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, i.e., whole cloth and apart from familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh

A Man Called Horse Reviews:
A Man Called Horse
2009-11-22 - A Man Called Horse This movie was in like new condition and played well. the shipping time was great.

a man called horse revisited...
2009-02-16 - I really enjoyed it when I had seen it for the first time years ago and seeing it again was just as good. Quality films only get better over time and one comes to truly appreciate them especially in these times of less than quality movie making. Richard Harrison did a wonderful job and I feel that the content was excellent as well. I should also remind the reader that I am not a movie critic hence please take what I write with a grain of salt.

my interest is the american indian
2008-12-16 - this dvd is for my personel interest in the life of the american indian and in my opinion gives a good example

If you're into factual Indian Culture, stay away.
2008-09-13 - This is another wreck of Indian ways and culture told by Hollywood story tellers, who had no idea what an Indian really was. If you look at the fact that Sioux Indians were in the North West, then why did his companion, who spoke French, was the way of Indians in the lower East of America.
Besides that, why did Harris's character, who after living with the Indians for so long, never bothered to even learn their language. At one point, he is teaching his new wife english...how sad. But, that's Hollywood, and this is an exploitation Hollywood-style, of the true and authentic Indian Cultures.
Terrible acting, sound and editing, stay away from this one. You'll be glad you did.

Silverstein's camera captures beautifully the expansive outdoor of the Sioux way of life and their rituals...
2007-12-30 - The story begins with a British aristocrat named John Morgan who finds himself captured by Sioux warriors... At first he's mocked and treated like an animal and then he's dragged to their camp where he is given to work for an old squaw (Judith Anderson).

Before too long the 'grand white gentleman' up with another captive Batise (Jean Gascon) whose family was all massacred five years ago by the Indians acts as translator for Morgan... One day after killing two Shoshone Indians from another tribe and scalping one of them, John gains trust and respect from his captives thus paving the way to be soon a warrior, then a loving husband...

The film's centerpiece is the Sun Vow that Morgan must bear to prove his courage to withstand all tests of pain in order to gain the hand of Running Dear (Corinna Tsopei) sister of Chief Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou). As the English nobleman is white, he is considered weak and he'll give up in the moment of truth...

There are also other truly memorable moments in the film: how the Indian virgin prepares herself for marriage--how she takes her sweat bath to be pure; and the tragic events when an Indian mother loses and has no other son or man, how she cuts off her forefinger and when winter comes she dies from the freezing cold...