mrsl wrote:I think Donna made a fine looking Indian but explain to me please? What is the difference in her playing an indian and handsome, blond, blue-eyed Burt Lancaster playing Jim Thorpe, although a terrific athlete, a truly unattractive man.
The fact is, Donna made a better indian than Audrey Hepburn did in The Unforgiven, don't you think? Donna was sturdier - built more like an outdoor person.
Anne
Excellent points, Anne!
ALL of the casting you mentioned was
equally RIDICULOUS!!
I guess my only defense is :
A) I just hadn't gotten around to picking on the others yet, and
B) It didn't help my suspension of disbelief that the script for
Far Horizons took such huge liberties with simple, well-known, well-documented American History!
In closing, here's one point of illuminating contrast:
The Big Sky, done in the same decade, maybe even a year or 2 earlier: big speaking role for an Amerind heroine . .
and they cast a Native American woman!
However do you suppose they did that ?!!