Flaming Star
1960
Elvis Presley stars as Pacer Burton, son of a white father (John McIntire) and Native American mother (Dolores del Rio) who finds his loyalties tested in a war of attrition between a fierce Indian tribe, the Kiowas, and a group of racist white settlers on the Texas frontier in 1870. Although his parents attempt to remain .. Read more
| Starring | Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del Rio |
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| Director | Don Siegel |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Flaming Star
Elvis Presley stars as Pacer Burton, son of a white father (John McIntire) and Native American mother (Dolores del Rio) who finds his loyalties tested in a war of attrition between a fierce Indian tribe, the Kiowas, and a group of racist white settlers on the Texas frontier in 1870. Although his parents attempt to remain outside the fray, his father is eventually killed in an Indian attack on the settlement. A white man, enraged over the Indian attacks, kills Pacer's mother. Shunned by white society after the Indian attacks, Pacer elects to fight on the side of the Kiowas while his brother, Clint (Steve Forrest), stays with the settlers. When Clint rides into the Kiowa camp alone and kills their chief to avenge his father's murder, Pacer fights off the entire tribe to protect his brother, and Clint barely escapes with his life. After Pacer's girl, Roslyn Pierce (Barbara Eden), has tended to Clint's severe wounds, she's unsuccessful in trying to stop him from going off to try to save his brother's life. Presley gives his finest performance as the sensitive Pacer, supported by an excellent cast in what is likely his best film. The strong, uncompromising script on the tragic cost of racism is superbly directed by Don Siegel.
| Starring | Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del Rio |
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| Director | Don Siegel |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Feb 2005 Production year: 1960 |
| Format | DVD |
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando, this immensely dignified and astoundingly violent (for its time) western became the second movie after King Creole to prove Elvis Presley could act. Here he plays an unhappy misfit, who must take sides when his mother's people (he is half native American) decide to go on the warpath. The glamorous Dolores Del Rio makes a Hollywood comeback as his ma and his pa is John McIntire. The tension, under the brilliant direction of Don Siegel, is beautifully sustained, and the outdoor colour and CinemaScope photography is outstanding. This was to be the last shot Presley would get at a decent acting role with a major director, after this his film career took a major turn for the worse. The box office receipts were reasonable, but not startling, partly because the film totally lacked songs apart from the title number and a folksy dance tune, both in the opening minutes. Incidentally, this western has much in common with the classic The Searchers.
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By far and away Presley's best film, in which he sings only one song (apart from the title number), and is used... read more on Time Out
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its elvis
this is one of the best elvis films having been brought up on the king of rock & roll
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SHEER BRILLIANCE....WHAT ELSE CAN YOU SAY
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Flaming Star
Elvis Presley stars as Pacer Burton, son of a white father (John McIntire) and Native American mother (Dolores del Rio) who finds his loyalties tested in a war of attrition between a fierce Indian tribe, the Kiowas, and a group of racist white settlers on the Texas frontier in 1870. Although his ...
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