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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaIn 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.
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- Artistas
Anthony Numkena
- Comes Running
- (as Anthony Earl Numkena)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
- White Moon
- (as Adeline DeWalt Reynolds)
Chief Bright Fire
- Indian
- (não creditado)
Frank DeKova
- Custin
- (não creditado)
Grady Galloway
- Shemawgun
- (não creditado)
Jim Hayward
- Tim Neeley
- (não creditado)
Earl Holliman
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (não creditado)
Muriel Landers
- Small Face, wife of Natayo
- (não creditado)
Carlos Loya
- Katatatsi
- (não creditado)
Michael Rennie
- Ending Narrator
- (narração)
- (não creditado)
Richard Shackleton
- Byran Neeley
- (não creditado)
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Improbably enough, Tyrone Power plays one of the first Canadian Mounties in this film. While I just couldn't picture him in this role, he was fine in the role as an interpreter sent to discuss peace with a renegade Indian tribe. The first half of the film was amazingly leisurely paced and lacked the usual level of excitement found in a Western, though the second half improved quite a bit. What I particularly liked was how the Indians were generally portrayed. Unlike earlier Westerns of the 30s and 40s, this one was much more sympathetic in its portrayal of the natives--showing them as intelligent and generally quite honorable. Also, to get past the usual dialog and accent problems, early in the film the narrator announced that Power and the Indians spoke the native language but it was translated to English for the benefit of the audience (an unusual announcement to say the least).
Aside from a nice portrayal of most of the Indian, the story also featured a cute Indian lad who actually helped the story--something cute child actors rarely do! On the negative side, the overall effort, to me, seemed rather listless in places and just didn't seem like much more than a very good time-passer. Interestingly enough, I watched this movie with my wife and she really liked it--more than I did, and this is unusual since she usually HATES Westerns.
Aside from a nice portrayal of most of the Indian, the story also featured a cute Indian lad who actually helped the story--something cute child actors rarely do! On the negative side, the overall effort, to me, seemed rather listless in places and just didn't seem like much more than a very good time-passer. Interestingly enough, I watched this movie with my wife and she really liked it--more than I did, and this is unusual since she usually HATES Westerns.
I'm not sure, but has there ever been a film made with a less than sympathetic treatment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police? The Mounties have done very well cinema wise and Pony Soldier is not setting any new patterns.
It doesn't have to because it's a very entertaining film. The plot has a lot of similarities to Broken Arrow which 20th Century Fox also produced. Tyrone Power is playing Constable Duncan MacDonald, newly arrived at Fort Walsh and sent out on a mission to negotiate a peace with Cree Indians who've left their reserve and tangled with U.S. Cavalry south of the border. On the way back they've taken two white prisoners in a raid and Power is looking to get them back. One is Penny Edwards who catches the eye of Cameron Mitchell and he decides she'd make a good squaw for his little brother. The other is Robert Horton who's an escaped outlaw.
So intrepid Mountie Power along with his Indian guide Thomas Gomez go to the camp of the Crees. Gomez is a most reluctant guide, in fact he's kind of blackmailed into making the journey. Thomas Gomez is an underrated and capable actor who deadpans some very funny lines.
Two others in the cast really make this work. Little Anthony Numkena plays the Cree Indian boy who Power adopts and that turns out to be a great negotiating technique. But their affection is genuine and the scenes between Power and Numkena are some of the best in the film.
Stuart Randall plays the Cree Chief Standing Bear. His portrayal is very similar to Jeff Chandler's more heralded portrayal of Cochise in Broken Arrow. In fact the Indians are not stereotyped, they are three dimensional characters here. Randall does a fine job as Standing Bear, negotiating with Power and having to contend with militants in his own camp led by Cameron Mitchell. Since Jeff Chandler had already broken the same ground with Cochise, Randall's performance has been overlooked, unfortunately so for him.
Tyrone Power is a whole cloth hero here and does a fine job. One of the things that Americans don't appreciate is that the Mounties were there in large measure to protect the native Indians from white depredation. Canadians have always loved contrasting that to how the U.S. Cavalry treated the native population. Our cavalry was there on the settler's behalf. The contrast is certainly a matter of historical record, but I wonder if Canada had seen the immigration westward that America did, would their Mounties have been more like our blue coats.
It doesn't have to because it's a very entertaining film. The plot has a lot of similarities to Broken Arrow which 20th Century Fox also produced. Tyrone Power is playing Constable Duncan MacDonald, newly arrived at Fort Walsh and sent out on a mission to negotiate a peace with Cree Indians who've left their reserve and tangled with U.S. Cavalry south of the border. On the way back they've taken two white prisoners in a raid and Power is looking to get them back. One is Penny Edwards who catches the eye of Cameron Mitchell and he decides she'd make a good squaw for his little brother. The other is Robert Horton who's an escaped outlaw.
So intrepid Mountie Power along with his Indian guide Thomas Gomez go to the camp of the Crees. Gomez is a most reluctant guide, in fact he's kind of blackmailed into making the journey. Thomas Gomez is an underrated and capable actor who deadpans some very funny lines.
Two others in the cast really make this work. Little Anthony Numkena plays the Cree Indian boy who Power adopts and that turns out to be a great negotiating technique. But their affection is genuine and the scenes between Power and Numkena are some of the best in the film.
Stuart Randall plays the Cree Chief Standing Bear. His portrayal is very similar to Jeff Chandler's more heralded portrayal of Cochise in Broken Arrow. In fact the Indians are not stereotyped, they are three dimensional characters here. Randall does a fine job as Standing Bear, negotiating with Power and having to contend with militants in his own camp led by Cameron Mitchell. Since Jeff Chandler had already broken the same ground with Cochise, Randall's performance has been overlooked, unfortunately so for him.
Tyrone Power is a whole cloth hero here and does a fine job. One of the things that Americans don't appreciate is that the Mounties were there in large measure to protect the native Indians from white depredation. Canadians have always loved contrasting that to how the U.S. Cavalry treated the native population. Our cavalry was there on the settler's behalf. The contrast is certainly a matter of historical record, but I wonder if Canada had seen the immigration westward that America did, would their Mounties have been more like our blue coats.
Garrulous Technicolor nonsense whose grasp of geography is evident from the use of Texan locations pretending to be Canada and whose fidelity to factual accuracy is evident from casting Cameron Mitchell and Thomas Gomez (the latter looking like Jabba the Hutt) as red indians. It boasts an interesting score by Alex North, who rapidly went on to much greater things.
I'll second what one (several) reviewers said about the location of the filming being ludicrous . . . But I found this more than interesting, almost intriguing, and the leads of Power and Gomez are excellent.
I suspect the story line is largely, if not totally, fictional. Didn't matter to me: It was entertaining, focused on finding a peaceful solution, and the action and crowd scenes are impressive for what had many trappings of a B-movie.
Seen today, Gomez's style and performance come close to making me cringe. Viewed from the perspective of 70 years ago, it's an outstanding performance with some clever words and effective acting.
Liked it, didn't love it, definitely worth seeing if your style runs to action and thought and bright colors.
I suspect the story line is largely, if not totally, fictional. Didn't matter to me: It was entertaining, focused on finding a peaceful solution, and the action and crowd scenes are impressive for what had many trappings of a B-movie.
Seen today, Gomez's style and performance come close to making me cringe. Viewed from the perspective of 70 years ago, it's an outstanding performance with some clever words and effective acting.
Liked it, didn't love it, definitely worth seeing if your style runs to action and thought and bright colors.
I can only say, poor Tyrone.
You make a fortune for your studio. You ask to make Nightmare Alley. Zanuck hates it. As a reward, you're handed mostly dreck until your contract is up.
Pony Soldier from 1952 is such dreck. It is in color, and Tyrone as Canadian Mountie Duncan Macdonald looks spectacular.
It was filmed in Arizona, and he got a nice romance out of it with Helen Frye, ex-wife of the founder of TWA. You can look it up on the Internet.
Film wise, it's 1876, and MacDonald, a newcomer to the Mounties, is given a dangerous assignment. The Cree Indians, now in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. MacDonald's mission is to free the hostages.
It's nice to look at, but that's about it. I spent the film feeling terrible for Power. Thankfully once the Fox shackles were off, he would be on the rise again. A little late, since six years after this film, he was dead.
You make a fortune for your studio. You ask to make Nightmare Alley. Zanuck hates it. As a reward, you're handed mostly dreck until your contract is up.
Pony Soldier from 1952 is such dreck. It is in color, and Tyrone as Canadian Mountie Duncan Macdonald looks spectacular.
It was filmed in Arizona, and he got a nice romance out of it with Helen Frye, ex-wife of the founder of TWA. You can look it up on the Internet.
Film wise, it's 1876, and MacDonald, a newcomer to the Mounties, is given a dangerous assignment. The Cree Indians, now in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. MacDonald's mission is to free the hostages.
It's nice to look at, but that's about it. I spent the film feeling terrible for Power. Thankfully once the Fox shackles were off, he would be on the rise again. A little late, since six years after this film, he was dead.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesActor Stuart Randall, playing Standing Bear, had all his lines re-dubbed with another actor's voice after filming was completed. Apparently the producers finally realized that most Canadian Indians do not, like Randall, have a distinct Texas accent.
- Erros de gravaçãoMontana in this movie is actually Sedona, Arizona.
- Citações
Standing Bear: The pony soldier speaks with the tongue of the snake that rattles.
Constable Duncan MacDonald: It is Standing Bear who speaks with a forked tongue!
- ConexõesReferenced in Tucker Carlson Tonight: Episode dated 10 February 2020 (2020)
- Trilhas sonorasThe Maple Leaf Forever
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Written by Alexander Muir
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- Data de lançamento
- País de origem
- Idioma
- Também conhecido como
- El soldado de la reina
- Locações de filme
- Sedona, Arizona, EUA(Coconino National Forest)
- Empresa de produção
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 22 minutos
- Proporção
- 1.37 : 1
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