Pony Soldier (1952)

Director:

Joseph M. Newman

Writers:

John C. Higgins (writer)
Garnett Weston (story)

Release Date:

19 diciembre 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Frase comercial:

...the flaming days of the Great Cree Rebellion...when the famed "Pony Soldiers" rode and loved where no white man ever dared before!

Plot:

In 1876, Duncan MacDonald joins the new, 300-member Mounted Police in western Canada, just in time for a dangerous mission...

Plot Keywords:

Police Officer | Mounted Police Officer | Native American | Canada | Cree Indian

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Competent and entertaining

Cast

Tyrone Power	...	Constable Duncan MacDonald
Cameron Mitchell	...	Konah
Thomas Gomez	...	Natayo Smith
Penny Edwards	...	Emerald Neeley
Robert Horton	...	Jess Calhoun
Anthony Numkena	...	Comes Running
Adeline De Walt Reynolds	...	White Moon
Howard Petrie	...	Insp. Frazer
Stuart Randall	...	Standing Bear

También conocida como:

MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties (UK)
Última flecha, La (Spain) [es]
Soldado de la reina, El (Chile) [es]

Duración:

82 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-12 | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Sedona, Arizona, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Actor 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.

Competent and entertaining

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.