*Plot and ending analyzed*
Charley-One-Eye (1973) is one of those odd films that come across the TV late at night. I really enjoyed it, since it was a new take on the Western. It has a black man, of recent from the Union Army, now a deserter, and his injured American Indian hostage. I didn't recognize Roy Thinnes as the Indian and Richard Roundtree as the black man. Richard Roundtree shot some Union officer and seems to be on the run. A mean-spirited Bounty Hunter is on his trail, played by Nigel Davenport (Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966)).
There's a lot of oddness in the interaction between the black man and his injured American Indian hostage, who are fighting for survival in the desert. It was filmed in Almería Spain, the locale for so many Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960's.
It is interesting to note how the relationship develops when they are by themselves and threatened by an outsider group. The ending was very melancholy. There is also a similar film, Eagle's Wing (1979), where Sam Waterston plays an American Indian. Grayeagle (1977) also has Alex Cord as an American Indian.
Charley-One-Eye, like Eagle's Wing (1979), were both British productions.
Charley-One-Eye is a chicken that the American Indian has taken a fancy to and perhaps is symbolic of how American Indians were treated.
Charley-One-Eye (1973) is one of those odd films that come across the TV late at night. I really enjoyed it, since it was a new take on the Western. It has a black man, of recent from the Union Army, now a deserter, and his injured American Indian hostage. I didn't recognize Roy Thinnes as the Indian and Richard Roundtree as the black man. Richard Roundtree shot some Union officer and seems to be on the run. A mean-spirited Bounty Hunter is on his trail, played by Nigel Davenport (Sands of the Kalahari (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966)).
There's a lot of oddness in the interaction between the black man and his injured American Indian hostage, who are fighting for survival in the desert. It was filmed in Almería Spain, the locale for so many Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960's.
It is interesting to note how the relationship develops when they are by themselves and threatened by an outsider group. The ending was very melancholy. There is also a similar film, Eagle's Wing (1979), where Sam Waterston plays an American Indian. Grayeagle (1977) also has Alex Cord as an American Indian.
Charley-One-Eye, like Eagle's Wing (1979), were both British productions.
Charley-One-Eye is a chicken that the American Indian has taken a fancy to and perhaps is symbolic of how American Indians were treated.