A Man Called Horse

Something like a disclaimer, or a tease, relating to what became a notorious scene, then an evocative credit sequence and the introduction of Richard Harris in the title role, a wayward English nobleman, Dub Taylor a sidekick, in director Elliott Silverstein’s A Man Called Horse, 1970.

The part everybody talked about, the gnarly (if not altogether confirmed in history) "Vow To The Sun" ritual in which English Morgan (Richard Harris) goes through an initiation administered by his Sioux brothers, whereupon he trips out hippie-style, in A Man Called Horse, 1970.

Sioux chief Yellow Hand (Manu Tupou) returning from a lengthy raid, observes Buffalo Cow Head (Judith Anderson), grieving over her son who was killed along the way, and offers her the captured Engilshman (Richard Harris), tribe members feuding all the while, in A Man Called Horse, 1970.

Spring has come, captured English Morgan (Richard Harris) doing better with his Sioux brethren, to the point that he propositions Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei) while picking flowers, gets counsel from fellow captive Batiste (Jean Gascon), then told off by Buffalo Cow Head (Judith Anderson), in A Man Called Horse, 1970.