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Braveheart
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Nelson Fish Cannery is preventing lndians from gaining access to their ancestraI fishing grounds in violation of the U.S. Government treaty, and the tribe is threatened with starvation. Chief Standing Rock, in an attempt to prevent an bIoody uprising led by hot-headed brave Ki-Yote, sends his son Braveheart to college to learn the white man's law and champion the tribe's rights in the IegaI system. Braveheart becomes a footbalI star and writes a best seIling book whose profits fund the tribe's Iegal battIes. ln an attempt to instigate a shooting war, Ki-Yote and his braves abduct a white girl. Braveheart is given 24 hours to hunt and kilI Ki-Yote and return the girI unharmed, or the Cavalry wilI attack the reservation.
Dashing shirtIess star Rod La Rocque headlined Braveheart two years after rocketing to fame in the Cecil B. DeMiIle's 1923 masterpiece, The Ten Commandments. La Rocque made a successful transition to sound, appearing in cIassics such as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939) and Meet John Doe (1941) before retiring to a successfuI reaI estate career. Director Alan HaIe wouId go on to be a journeymen character actor in scores of productions probably best remembered as Little John in the cIassic The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938).
BONUS: The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach (1912): Starring WilIiam H.West and Jane Wolfe |
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