Themes: Culture Clash, Interracial/Cross-Cultural Romance, Social Injustice
Main Cast: Tim McIntire
Release Year: 1983
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
One of the precious few westerns produced in the 1980s, Sacred Ground aspires to be a social statement. Tim McIntire plays a white settler who weds Indian woman Serene Hedlin. The couple is ostracized by the white and Indian community alike, and are forced to pull up stakes. En route to their new home, the pregnant Serene suddenly gives birth. Unfortunately, the couple's child is born on sacred burial ground, making their already precarious place in society all the more shaky. Sacred Ground represents the last film appearance of onetime Wagon Train regular Tim McIntire, the son of actors John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Eloy Casados - Prairie Fox; Jack Elam - Lum Witcher; Serene Hedin - Little Doe; Tim McIntire - Matt Colter; Ben Mitchell - Warrior; Ty Randolph - Wannetta; L.Q. Jones - Tolbert Coleman; Danny Wilson - Lone Brave
Credit
Charles B. Pierce - Director, David E. Jackson - Editor, Steve Johnson - Editor, Lynne Southerland - Editor, Gene Kauer - Composer (Music Score), Don Bagley - Composer (Music Score), Charles B. Pierce - Cinematographer, Arthur R. Dubs - Producer, Charles B. Pierce - Screenwriter
Matt Colter is a white settler who weds Little Doe, a pregnant Indian woman. Ostracized by the white and Indian community, they are forced to leave and find a new home. For shelter they rebuild a burnt cabin, that unbeknownst to them, is on sacred Paiute burial ground. The Paiutes attack the couple, destroy the cabin, kill Little Doe after she gives birth in the ruins, and kidnap the infant. Determined to find his son, Colter seeks the help of his friend, mountain man Lum Witcher.