White Feather

White Feather (1955)

Beyond Any Indian Adventure Ever Filmed!

The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.

Date of release
1955-02-16
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Action, Western
Director
Robert D. Webb

Casting

Interesting facts

White Feather is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Wagner. The movie was filmed in Durango, Mexico. The story is based on fact; however, the particulars of the plot and the characters of the story are fictional.

Production

The film was based on the magazine story My Great Aunt Appearing Day by John Prebble which concerns a Native American woman who marries a British major.

Film rights were purchased by Panoramic Productions, a company under Leonard Goldstein, who had a ten-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. Delmer Daves did the original script. It was the last of Panoramic's ten-picture deal (replacing another intended project, Hawk of the Desert) before they left to set up at United Artists, and their first in CinemaScope.

Moreno was replaced by Debra Paget. Moore and Robertson would not appear in the final film.

Filming began in July 1954 in Durango, Mexico. It was the first Hollywood movie shot in Durango, which would become a regular location for Hollywood films, especially Westerns.

Early into the shoot, Goldstein died unexpectedly.

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