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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) on Netflix

PG19762h 9mDramaWestern

John Morgan, the English earl the Yellow Hand Sioux call Horse, leaves his fiancée and estate for America. Government-backed trappers have driven his adopted people off their sacred land.

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Trappers with government backing force the Yellow Hands Sioux off the sacred ground the band holds, and the people withdraw, waiting for supernatural punishment to fall on the men who took it. John Morgan, the eighth Earl of Kildare, lived among the Yellow Hand for years and is known to them as Horse. English life holds nothing for him, and he longs for the West and the band he left, so he leaves his fiancée and his estate and returns to America. There he learns that the traders and their Indian allies have largely massacred the tribe or put its people into slavery, and that the survivors are dispirited.

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  • Producer Sandy Howard criticized the film as "too gratutious" and claimed director Irvin Kershner "cast it with Jews and made too much of a play on graphic violence", adding that he "didn't like what I saw".

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