"Run of the Arrow" has an ex-Civil War soldier taking an Indian wife (Sarita Montiel) and here the Indians are less idealized
Steiger, deserter from the Southern cause, is a highly credible character, tough and able to effect a compromise with the Sioux until he finds one aspect of the culture he can't stomach, let alone assimilatethat of skinning a captive alive
He still, however, rides out of the picture with his Indian wife alongside
Whether she will assimilate what she finds in a different culture remains unanswered
The film remains a bloody little Western in the accustomed Fuller vein of unpleasantness...
Steiger, deserter from the Southern cause, is a highly credible character, tough and able to effect a compromise with the Sioux until he finds one aspect of the culture he can't stomach, let alone assimilatethat of skinning a captive alive
He still, however, rides out of the picture with his Indian wife alongside
Whether she will assimilate what she finds in a different culture remains unanswered
The film remains a bloody little Western in the accustomed Fuller vein of unpleasantness...