When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
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Action! - Three Auteurs: The Narrative Tabloids Of Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller continues his quest to explore human connections in the face of adversity and other separating factors such as racism and class. This time in the form of a drama about the friendship between a white male confederate and a Native American man during the last days of the American Civil War.
First of all I must admit that I was a little disappointed. I found this film a bit of a step down after a couple of high quality ones, though apparently it was striking enough to make an impact on some people. For example, many critics have noted that Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves is influenced…
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At one point Private O’Meara (Rod Steiger) lies alongside Walking Coyote (Jay C Flippen) and they have a chat. It’s a moment between two men exiled from their respective societies. A weird conversation unfolds, meant with good intent, that destabilizes any modicum of realism the film has going for it. Steiger meanders with his accent and Flippen is doing his best Jeff Chandler-from-Broken Arrow-impersonation reinterpreted as a golly gee whiz kid from the 50s. Run of the Arrow’s crux is director/writer/producer Samuel Fuller, who has a knack for creating interesting messaging while also knocking the viewer’s suspension of disbelief.
It’s not un-believable that these characters wouldn’t have bonded or hated each other, but rather, that they…
Aquilo a que chamamos arte idealista, aquilo a que chamamos arte realista, são formas momentâneas de nossa eterna ação. A nós cabe captar o minuto imortal em que as forças conservadoras e as forças revolucionárias da vida se esposam para realizar o equilíbrio da alma humana.
Empregamos, para a expressão das nossas ideias, os materiais que nosso olhar atinge e que nossas mãos podem tocar. É impossível que Fídias e Rembrandt, o escultor que vive na luz do Sul, no meio de um mundo marcante, o pintor que vive nas brumas do Norte, em meio a um mundo flutuante, dois homens separados por vinte séculos, no transcurso dos quais a humanidade viveu, sofreu e envelheceu, sirvam-se das mesmas palavras... Contudo,…
To hell with political correctness! Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow is disguised as a Hollywood Western, but its deep-seated anger makes it a perfect fit for today's Zeitgeist: the era of Ferguson, Alison Parker/Adam Ward, and anti-Latino Trumpmania is not so far removed from Fuller's cinematic world. In fact, Donald Trump should be tied down to a chair, Ludivico-style, and force fed the Fuller.
Sam Fuller weaves the quintissential Fuller yarn with Run of the Arrow, a brawny Revisionist Western with little subtlety and much bravado. Its impossible plot--Rod Steiger plays an Irish Confederate who, after his side loses the Civil War, forsakes his new country and assimilates into a Sioux tribe--is a powerful metaphor for the ignorance of…
I'd first encountered Samuel Fuller years ago when I first saw The Big Red One, a film that clearly had an influence on Spielberg when he came to make Saving Private Ryan. I'd initially been attracted simply by the presence of Lee Marvin, but Fuller's background in journalism and his subsequent own involvement with the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, made him the perfect candidate to direct such a film. His wartime exploits saw him see action in a host of different theatres, from Normandy to Africa, and although before the war he'd made a living as a screenwriter, when he returned home he was ready to make the jump to the director's chair. And that was where yet again, Robert…
Watched as a collab with Ziglet_mir! His review is here.
What is most striking about Samuel Fuller's The Run of the Arrow is its shocking lack of sophistication. While Fuller, like all of us, is imperfect when it comes to confronting issues of race, loyalty, and conflict, movies like The Crimson Kimono and The Steel Helmet at least reveal his awareness of the complexity of the topics with which he's attempting to grapple.
In Run of the Arrow, on the other hand, his hero (Rod Steiger as O'Meara) is a white American who conquers a Sioux test of endurance that no has ever previously survived, seemingly learns, in a week or two, to speak Sioux so fluently that his pronunciation…
The birth of the United States: conflicts of belonging and honor, liberty and ambition, violence seems to be the natural solution to all these colliding dissensions. A man serving a flag - but which flag? What is a nation, exactly, what makes you part of it, what orders you to go to war for it, to die for it - must it be something you believe in or is it a matter of duty?
Posiblemente la mejor película que se haya hecho jamás acerca de la disidencia política.
Not sure I could vouch for "Run of the Arrow" as a genuinely 'great' movie from writer/director Samuel Fuller, but it's so thorny, interesting, and flat-out weird that I can't help but find it compelling. Imagine a late 50's take on "Dances with Wolves," only with the wrinkle that our protagonist (Rod Steiger) fought on the side of the Confederacy. While Steiger's character sounds like he just walked off the boat from Ireland, he identifies as a die-hard Southern loyalist, and the film seems to have some empathy for his plight as a believer in a lost cause—which registers as strange at first, but I think Fuller simply responds to individuals who buck the system. (Both this film and "Dances…
Given that Fuller cast African- and Asian-Americans in roles stretching back to 1951's THE STEEL HELMET in his long-running focus on racism in America, the brazen whitewashing of the native parts here is almost dejecting. Fuller did the research, respects the culture, but Jay C. Flippen sounds almost nebbish when he assures his Sioux tribesmen that he is one of them, while Charles Bronson's Blue Buffalo speaks English better than Rod Steiger's unrepentant Reb (this might have been a sly joke if the actor had been a Native American).
Gradually, however, my reservations evaporated, not only because Fuller's meaty direction is so hard to deny (opening on shots of battleground devastation as "Palm Sunday" appears in blood red, shooting the…
Run of the Arrow feels raw, gritty, realistic and somewhat dire. Maverick director Sam Fuller just knew how to craft an immersive character-driven Western Drama. This is direct, un-sugarcoated and masculine filmmaking. Strong performances from Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker and a young and incredible fit Charles Bronson. The film is rather short and ends a bit abruptly but that is not really to the films disadvantage. Fuller was not only a skilled but also very efficient storyteller. And while I wouldn't rank Run of the Arrow among his best films, it's still a well-crafted, potent little western that's worth discovering and watching.
RENEGANDO O MEU SANGUE, por Jacques Lourcelles.
Mais ainda que os seus outros filmes, os quatro westerns de Fuller constituem uma fabulosa saga da diferença, da raiva de si e dos outros e do impossível desejo de mudar de pele. Em Matei Jesse James, Bob Ford, por amar demais Jesse James, mata-o e aquiesce para o resto de sua vida ao uniforme de traidor. Em O Barão Aventureiro, James Addison Reavis, para satisfazer seu orgulho imenso e seu patriotismo louco, rouba e se apropria de um Estado inteiro. Em Dragões da Violência uma mulher, descontente do mais profundo de si mesma de sua feminilidade e sentindo também que a ordem que irá se instalar irá lhe varrer inexoravelmente, torna-se a…
