Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Yaphet Kotto, John Colicos, Pam Grier

Director: Steve Carver

Summary: Set in 1860 in New Orleans this is the story of Drum, the black slave of a plantation owner's beautiful wife and the effect he has on the women around him. Based on the novel by Kyole Onstott.

A sequel to MANDINGO, in 1860s New Orleans. A passionate and provocative drama set in the American south in the decade prior to the Civil War. Warren Oates plays the negro slave in a bordello house who must endure all manner of sexual indignities.

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Tough but moving, Thunderheartis an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed stand-off between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheartdirector Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheartfeels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com--This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Animated Menu, Scene Selection
Year:	1976
Release Date:	October 8, 2001
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P P A 1576
Label:	Castle Home Video
Keywords:	Drum, General, Drama
Genre:	Drama