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L'Homme de San Carlos

Original title: Walk the Proud Land
  • 1956
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Anne Bancroft, Audie Murphy, and Pat Crowley in L'Homme de San Carlos (1956)
Based upon the true story of John Philip Clum (Audie Murphy), Walk the Proud Land is one of the few Westerns of the 1950's to take a sympathetic and historically accurate view of the Native American Indian's fight with the white settlers. Clum is an Indian agent sent to the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona in 1874 to prevent further bloodshed and stop the renegade chief Geronimo (Jay Silverheels) from encouraging young Indian braves to take up their weapons and fight once more. Clum's struggle is made worse by the townsfolk and cavalry who believe that the only good Indian is a scalped one. But whilst Clum makes enemies of the governor, cavalry officers and the more headstrong Apache braves, he begins to win the trust of the elders by talking of the government's new peace plan for Indian autonomy rather than submission. Ann Bancroft plays Tianay, the beautiful Indian widow who cleans the house for Clum and gradually falls in love with him. But when Clum brings his young fiancée from back East (Pat Crowley) to marry him, and the young Apaches think that Tianay should keep to her own race, the spark of an uprising is lit and Clum must put his life on the line to prevent the reservation from siding with Geronimo.
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An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for ... Read allAn agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.An agent sent from Washington in 1874 takes charge of an Apache reservation and has the oppressive US Army back off, which creates conflicts and causes the Indians to have great respect for him.

  • Director
    • Jesse Hibbs
  • Writers
    • Gil Doud
    • Jack Sher
    • Woodworth Clum
  • Stars
    • Audie Murphy
    • Anne Bancroft
    • Pat Crowley
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
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    • Director
      • Jesse Hibbs
    • Writers
      • Gil Doud
      • Jack Sher
      • Woodworth Clum
    • Stars
      • Audie Murphy
      • Anne Bancroft
      • Pat Crowley
    • 19User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Audie Murphy
    Audie Murphy
    • John Philip Clum
    Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft
    • Tianay
    Pat Crowley
    Pat Crowley
    • Mary Dennison
    Charles Drake
    Charles Drake
    • Tom Sweeny
    Tommy Rall
    Tommy Rall
    • Taglito
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • Chief Eskiminzin
    Jay Silverheels
    Jay Silverheels
    • Geronimo
    Eugene Mazzola
    Eugene Mazzola
    • Tono
    Anthony Caruso
    Anthony Caruso
    • Disalin
    Victor Millan
    Victor Millan
    • Santos
    Ainslie Pryor
    Ainslie Pryor
    • Capt. Larsen
    Eugene Iglesias
    Eugene Iglesias
    • Chato
    Morris Ankrum
    Morris Ankrum
    • Gen. Wade
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    • Gov. Safford
    Maurice Jara
    • Alchise
    Frank Chase
    Frank Chase
    • Stone
    Ed Hinton
    • Naylor
    Marty Carrizosa
    • Pica
    • Director
      • Jesse Hibbs
    • Writers
      • Gil Doud
      • Jack Sher
      • Woodworth Clum
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    8gkhege

    One of Murphy's best...

    Audie Murphy could never shake his " War Hero" status but this movie gave him a chance to just act. It was one of his many movies in which his shortness never stood in the way of his character. Though he was a badass in real life, his baby face, always made him appear as a soft little man from Texas. Good movie...
    5rsoonsa

    Clum's story is worth more than this.

    The narrative of John P. Clum's broadly varied activities is one of the most dramatic in U.S. history, his tenure as Indian Agent at Arizona's San Carlos Reservation, 1874/77, being particularly noteworthy and forming the subject of this film starring war hero Audie Murphy as Clum. During his assignment to San Carlos, Clum established the first Indian tribal police and court system, using the former to capture the wily Geronimo, convincing the renegade that he was surrounded by a large group of warriors, far from the case. By accomplishing all of this and more, Clum eliminated any possible requirement for continued deployment of a United States Army cavalry regiment at San Carlos, which erased profits from provisioning for the Army and made Clum's presence less than heaven-sent for the mounted troopers. WALK THE PROUD LAND is based upon incidents to be found within Woodworth Clum's 1936 biography of his father, which is the principal source for the screenplay written by the capable pair of Gil Doud and Jack Sher. Unfortunately, Doud ("To Hell and Back") and Sher ("Shane") fail to utilize the most dramatic elements of Clum's story, replacing them with a collection of banal contrivances which serve only to dissipate the feature's impact. Filmed with the wide-screen Cinemascope process, and with sublime Technicolor, the work is delightful to the eye, and benefits as well from the stylish efforts of costumer Bill Thomas. A top-notch performance is given by Anne Bancroft as an Apache warrior's widow who is "given" by the tribe's chief to Clum and who becomes his strongest ally against the Agent's enemies from within both the cavalry and the tribe. Audie Murphy's native earnestness is very effective in his portrayal of Clum, with his palpable lack of emotive flexibility being of no consideration here, and he is well supported by Bancroft, sturdy Charles Drake as his closest comrade, winsome Pat Crowley as his wife, Tommy Rall as his Indian blood brother, and character actors Addison Richards and Morris Ankrum. Many good hands were not utilized properly during the creation of this film, and since Clum's travails were largely for nought, Geronimo being released by his successor, leading to nearly 15 years of unabated Indian wars, a bittersweet and indeed revelatory quality would have been more effective in lieu of numerous scenes depicting lamely comedic children and romantic frippery that have no basis in fact.
    7elo-equipamentos

    Better late than never.... a defeated people had his protector!!!

    There a few greatest star to have a enough charisma as much as Audie Murphy had, I did remember perfectly once around 1981 on TV "Audie Murphy's week" from monday to friday at 9.00 pm o'clock, l've been waiting for a long time a remastered official copy of this movie watched a couple times only, Murphy playing a legendary John Philip Clum a Indian agent with clear ideas handling with those natives, concerning their traditions and values, letting to them to decide for themselves, a real human treatment to those people who were the true and authentic owner of the those lands.

    They deserve more respect from us, this meaningful production gives back a slight concept how should be better spared them of such killing, treated by disproportionate forces, usually a cold blood, severely decimeted with no mercy, John Clum who shall be eternity remembered as "Indian's protector" few times we have this kind of approach on western movies, mostly of them show a opposite way, perhaps to confirm such saying " a thousand lies overcome a single true if said repeated" a defeated people have to stand such barbarism, this picture has my respect forever, still more with Audie Murphy!!

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    First watch: 1989 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.
    7bkoganbing

    Before Tombstone

    In the various tellings of the tale of the OK Corral, the name John Clum comes up as a peripheral character. At that point in his life he was Mayor of Tombstone, Arizona and founder and editor of the Tombstone Epitaph which was in editorial support of the Earp brothers. But before that John Clum was an Indian agent, sent to the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona to reform the corrupt practices regarding same. Audie Murphy plays an eager and honest Clum in this film.

    The poor Indians were caught between a rock and a hard place. Either it was the army who was going to govern them or as was argued the civilian Interior Department.

    Clum has some interesting and novel ideas about giving the Apaches a large measure of self government. But the real story of Clum is hardly touched on. He stands out simply because he was honest. Sad to say Indian agents for the most part were hack politicians from the political machines back east. Whether they were hired by the War Department or the Interior Department, a lot of them robbed the poor Indians blind. Right at this time, one of the most notorious scandals of the Grant Administration was the Whiskey Ring which involved various trading posts and reached right up to the Secretary of War, a gentleman named William Belknap who resigned before he was impeached.

    Murphy gets able support from two leading ladies, pretty and perky Pat Crowley who plays his eastern fiancé and Anne Bancroft who is the spectacularly beautiful Indian widow who's crushing out on him. Jay Silverheels who played Geronimo in Broken Arrow, plays him again in Walk the Proud Land. Charles Drake plays the former army sergeant who hires on as a blacksmith at the San Carlos Reservation and becomes Murphy's best pal and confidante.

    Walk the Proud Land is one of the few western films to have a choreographer in the person of Tommy Rall. Rall, a well known Broadway dancer, plays a young Indian warrior who becomes Murphy's friend. There is a lengthy sequence involving the Apaches entertaining some white VIPs at Murphy's wedding to Crowley with some tribal dances. A nice mix between the real deal and what you might see in Rose Marie's Totem Tom Tom number.

    Walk the Proud Land is definitely one of Audie Murphy's better westerns for Universal and a nice tribute to a real western figure.
    9daviddaphneredding

    The tenderfoot is very brave

    In this true story about the Indian Agent John Clum, who went from the East to the Apache Indian reservation near Tucson, Arizona in 1874 to work with the mistreated Indians, Audie Murphy performs well in his role as a reserved man who is, nonetheless, bold toward the uncooperative U.S. Army and brave toward some Apaches who are mean with a killer's temper; he has to demonstrate his bravery more than once. The authentic Old Tuscon is, naturally, appropriate, and this movie set is very Old-West looking. The story can be provocative in a sense, for it begs a question concerning what our attitude should be toward Native Americans and any other minority group. Charlie Drake shows his acting prowess both as an army sergeant and as an occasional drunk. Pat Crowley is also capable in her role as Clum's wife, a lady herself from back East who must adjust to the situation into which her husband is thrown, if she can make such an adjustment. Anne Bancroft is very convincing as the lovely and tempting Indian widow who becomes so much in love with Clum. And Jay Silverheels shows what the mean Geronimo must have been like. It is not only a good western and a good biopic, but it does, again, challenge our thinking about our attitude toward minority races. The movie is worth the while for many reasons.

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    • Trivia
      In this large cast with many Apache characters, the only credited Native American is Jay Silverheels as Geronimo.
    • Goofs
      In the knife fight scene where Clum breaks up the war dance, his opponent slashes at Clum and hits a tree. When the two separate, the knife is obviously pulled from the tree. In the next scene the two are on the ground fighting, but the knife is stuck in the tree.
    • Quotes

      John Philip Clum: A man loves a woman, he likes to know she cares enough to be a little jealous.

    • Connections
      Referenced in What's My Line?: Miss Universe 1956 Carol Morris & Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (1956)

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    • Release date
      • February 1, 1957 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Walk the Proud Land
    • Filming locations
      • Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,500,000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 28m(88 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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