Indian kills white man in self defense and is then pursued by a posse. The blacklisted director may be making a few parallels here to the Communist witch hunt that was HUAC, Polonsky's first directorial effort in 20 years.

Regardless of the academic context under which I was forced to watch this film--for a course I sincerely enjoy--this film is mindnumbingly uneventful, and yet still derivative of every liberal Hollywood convention in the book. That said: Katharine Ro... (read more) Regardless of the academic context under which I was forced to watch this film--for a course I sincerely enjoy--this film is mindnumbingly uneventful, and yet still derivative of every liberal Hollywood convention in the book. That said: Katharine Ross? In brownface? Why?

Terrible Movie. The movie is one big chase seen with nothing happening until it's pitiful ending!

It's basically a Western chase film that openly serves liberal messages over the Indian-white conflict.

It's a really effective and interesting movie, on one hand offering a cat-and-mouse story, on the other hand showing the injustices Native Americans were faced with--even if those Native Americans are played by Robert Blake and Katharine Ross, of all... (read more) It's a really effective and interesting movie, on one hand offering a cat-and-mouse story, on the other hand showing the injustices Native Americans were faced with--even if those Native Americans are played by Robert Blake and Katharine Ross, of all people. Redford showed he could carry a movie before he was paired up with Paul Newman for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", although his romance with Susan Clark doesn't really register with the rest of the film.