Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, George Waggner

Director: John Ford

Summary: Classic silent western full of double-dealing, greed, vengeance and romance. Restored tinted version with a music soundtrack.

This John Ford silent Western stars George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. An epic Wild West tale, THE IRON HORSE follows the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, and is particularly interesting as a document of early American cinema.

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American Indians were "cool" in 1970, the year A Man Called Horsemade its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Manand Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horseis less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing savage initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horselooks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native-American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, making no concessions to familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1924
Release Date:	June 24, 2002
Runtime:	134 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B F I V D 521
Keywords:	Horse, Iron, Silent, Westerns
Genre:	Westerns