Indian Agent (film)
{{Short description|1948 film by Lesley Selander}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Indian Agent
| image =File:Indian Agent (film).jpg
| caption =
| director = Lesley Selander
| producer = Herman Schlom
| writer = Norman Houston
| starring = Tim Holt
Noah Beery Jr.
| music =
| cinematography =
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| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1948|12|11|U.S.|ref1={{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25589| title=Indian Agent: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= May 10, 2014}}}}
| runtime = 64 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Plot
A cowboy tries to convince Indians not to go on the warpath due to the activities of a corrupt Indian agent.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p230
Background
The film was finished in May 1948.{{Cite news|title=News of the Screen|author=The|date=June 15, 1948|work=Christian Science Monitor|page=4}} It was released in December 1948 on a double bill with He Walked By Night.{{Cite news|title=Manhunt Kxcitingly Pictured|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=Nov 25, 1948|work=Los Angeles Times|page=B11}}
Significance
The so-called A Westerns are often credited with the major break throughs in movie making culture. So we often overlook the significance of the so-called B Westerns. A good example. Any Western Movie fan knows that the July 1950 released A Western Broken Arrow (1950 film) pioneered early attempts to bring a more positive pro-aboriginal or pro-indigenous perspective to the USA's early peoples. However, with this earlier movie filmed in May 1948, Writer Norman Houston, Producer Herman Schlom, and the All-Time Movie Volume Western Movie Director Lesley Selander, advanced "the goal posts" even closer to that date in July 1950 with this December 1948 released B Western movie which portrayed the USA's earliest people in a more positive light.
References
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External list
- {{IMDb title|0040470}}
- [https://archive.org/stream/variety172-1948-11#page/n70/mode/1up Review of film] at Variety
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:1948 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Lesley Selander
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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