Director: Tab Murphy

Writer: Tab Murphy

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Parley Baer	Actor	5-Aug-1914	22-Nov-2002	Chester on Gunsmoke radio
Tom Berenger	Actor	31-May-1949		Platoon
Barbara Hershey	Actor	5-Feb-1948		Boxcar Bertha and Mary Magdalene
Graham Jarvis	Actor	25-Aug-1930	16-Apr-2003	Canadian-American character actor
Molly Parker	Actor	Jun-1972		Widow Garret on Deadwood
Kurtwood Smith	Actor	3-Jul-1943		Red on That 70's Show

REVIEWS

Review by Forevermare (posted on 14-May-2005)

Brief synopsis: Lewis Gates (Tom Berenger) encounters something or someone that by rights he shouldn't in a remote area of Montana. He brings a mysterious arrow to anthropologist/archeologist Lillian Sloan. Reluctantly, she goes with him on a journey into the Oxbow. There they discover and befriend a band of Cheyenne Dogmen descended from one that was thought to have been killed off by the White Man long ago. When a posse searching for Lewis threatens to expose their way of life, he must find a way to protect them, even if it means losing everything he has gained. The storyline may be a little far out, but the main characters are well drawn. I am a sucker for any film that accurately portrays the lifestyle of the American Indian, and this one does (by accurate I mean not over-dramatized or romanticized) The movie has humor, romance, and a wonderful warm and fuzzy ending, which in this day and age can be hard to come by. I read some other reviews that complained that this movie is cliched. Well, most of the movies of the 1940s seem cliched by today's standards, but we still love the good feeling we get from watching them. Films dealing with this subject always have a certain poignancy, because we know that a way of life that existed for so long is gone because of stupidity, greed, and/or cruelty of European invaders. It seems that somehow a little bit of this lost way of life is being preserved within each frame of film. Maybe it's a kind of penance. Barbara Hershey is beautiful as always, and Tom Berenger is manly as always, but with a little touch of "Aw, shucks" that is really endearing. However, it may be the adorable little mutt Zip that steals the show. Really, really smart animal! As for the far-out plot: the recent news that a woodpecker thought to be extinct for more than 60 years has been seen alive in Tennessee makes it seem a little more plausible. Are there places--and things-- in the United States so remote that they have been lost or forgotten? Hmmmm. Only Sasquatch knows for sure.

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