Sitting Bull

Back of Mary's dress shows an obvious zipper.

Some of the action scenes around the Little Big Horn show modern tire marks.

While everyone is waiting for President Grant's response, due before the next full moon, the moon's terminator (the line between light and shadow) apparently moves from left to right.

The terminator always moves from right to left.

Events leading up to Colonel Custer's demise at the battle of Little Big Horn are saddled with a domestic sub-plot regarding cavalry officer Dale Robertson's troubled romance with Mary Murphy in this adequate but unremarkable Western from independent producer W. R.

Back in 2003, when CinemaScope celebrated its fortieth anniversary, some of the films chosen to mark this occasion were rather odd. Few people would argue with River of No Return but where was King of the Khyber Rifles or Drum Beat or Moonfleet or Sitting Bull?

Though not particularly well strung together, this offers us an interesting look at the build up to the famous Battle of the Little Big Horn from more of the Sioux perspective. Dale Robertson is ("Parrish"), an officer who has seen at first hand the shocking treatment of these peoples on their reservations by the crooked and corrupt agents ostensibly there to support and protect them, but who actually starve and humiliate them at any opportunity whilst creaming profits for themselves.

"Sitting Bull" as one might expect, takes place at the time of the infamous and oft filmed "Custer's Last Stand".The story involves the efforts of the fictional Major Bob Parrish (Dale Robertson) and Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (J.

This film was made before the value f real Native Americans was considered in lead roles by Hollyweird.Even "Iron Eyes Cody" was not a Native American...

Rather than a biopic of Sitting Bull, the famed Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies, this is a heavily fictionalised story of events leading up to and including The Battle at Little Big Horn. The story is told through the eyes of an undoubtedly fictitious cavalry officer Major Robert Parrish, who according to the movie's storyline, also had a secret Presidential assignment to set up a peace treaty with Sitting Bull.

Unless you are a big fan of the Italian actor Iron Eyes Cody, this one doesn't have much to offer. The subplot with Dale Robertson being rejected by his fiancée because he is demoted was irritating, that he takes her back after her new fiancée is killed is puerile.

"Sitting Bull" is a film that shocked me. For a biopic/western, it's actually much closer to fact than I would have suspected.

Cheap, stupid, maddeningly idiotic western supposedly about Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Everything about this movie is tenth-rate--the acting is terrible, the script is absolute horsecrap with not even a PRETENSE of historical accuracy, the photography is awful, at times the camera actually shakes .