Flap (film)
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| Directed by | Carol Reed |
| Screenplay by | Clair Huffaker |
| Based on | Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker |
| Produced by | Jerry Adler |
| Starring | Anthony Quinn Claude Akins Tony Bill Shelley Winters Victor Jory |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Frank Bracht, A.C.E. |
| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
Production company | Cine Vesta Associates |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Inc. |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Flap (distributed in Britain as The Last Warrior) is a 1970 American comedy-drama western film directed by Carol Reed and starring Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins and Shelley Winters.[1] Set in a modern Native American reservation, it is based on the novel Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker.[2]
Plot
Flapping Eagle lives on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States. He drinks too much, one of many sources of disagreement between Flap and his sweetheart, Dorothy Bluebell. He also has trouble with his arch-rival, Sgt. Rafferty, a brutal, bigoted police officer in town.
Flap launches protests, first disrupting a construction crew's bulldozer impeding on Indian land, then stealing a train after a lawyer, Wounded Bear, leads him to believe the train would become legal Indian property once it's in their territory.
Rafferty is violently beaten by Flap after a series of insults and abuses and the last straw, the shooting of a dog. Flap, now an Indian activist whose protests have gained him publicity and popularity, leads a protest march through the town. From a hospital window, Rafferty aims a handgun and assassinates him.
Cast
- Anthony Quinn - Flapping Eagle
- Claude Akins - Lobo
- Tony Bill - Eleven Snowflake
- Shelley Winters - Dorothy Bluebell
- Victor Jory - Wounded Bear Mr. Smith
- Don Collier - Mike Lyons
- Victor French - Rafferty
- Rodolfo Acosta - Storekeep
- Susana Miranda - Ann Looking Deer
- Anthony Caruso - Silver Dollar
- William Mims - Steve Gray
- Rudy Diaz - Larry Standing Elk
- Pedro Regas - She'll-Be-Back-Pretty-Soon
- John War Eagle - Luke Wolf
- J. Edward McKinley - Harris
- Robert Cleaves - Gus Kirk
Production
The movie was filmed in 1969[3] on locations in Albuquerque, Madrid, Puye Cliffs (Santa Clara Pueblo), Santa Fe, and Santo Domingo Pueblo.[4]
Although Warner Bothers would keep the movie on the shelf for 18 months before general release, the movie was given a special premiere on Nov. 19, 1970 in the Cinema East Theater of Albuquerque with Anthony Quinn making a personal appearance. Admission was $100 per seat with all proceeds establishing a $75,000 creative arts scholarship fund for Indian students.[3]
Music
The song "If Nobody Loves" was written by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Estelle Levitt. It is performed by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.
See also
References
- ^ BFI.org
- ^ Evans p.185
- ^ a b Jim Hoyle (October 20, 1970). "State Praised, Film Makers Entertained". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Santa Fe: 1. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
Flap was filmed in New Mexico last year at several locations, including the Santa Clara and Santo Domingo Indian pueblos
- ^ "Filmed in New Mexico". the Public Library, Albuquerque and Bernadillo County. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
Bibliography
- Evans, Peter William. Carol Reed. Manchester University Press, 2005.
External links
- Flap at IMDb
- Flap at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Flap at the TCM Movie Database
- Flap at AllMovie
- Flap at Rotten Tomatoes
- Flap at TV Guide (revised form of this 1987 write-up was originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)
