Saturday, August 24, 2013

On the Seminal 1956 Western, "The Searchers"

Comanche actors not non-aboriginal looking enough.

5 comments:

dmarks said...

Were they Italian-Americans?

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Some, yes, I think.

dmarks said...

Some things never change. Look at fake Indian Johnny Depp as Tonto.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Yeah, Johnny Depp as Tonto was truly insulting.......Of course some of the Hollywood casting over the years has been amusing; the Jewish Eli Wallach as a Mexican bandito in "The Magnificent Seven" and again in "The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly".

dmarks said...

The spaghetti westerns don't seem to take place in the real world.

They did a good deal of fake Indian casting in the Twilight movie series, also.