Cover: Western collection: A Good Day to Die (Children of the Dust) Rating: 0
23 dec. 2013

Details

Director:David Greene
Writer:Clancy Carlile, Joyce Eliason
Theatrical:1995
Rated:R
Studio:The Königsberg Company
Genre:Western, TV Movie
Duration:175
Awards:Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys, Another 4 nominations
Languages:English
Sound:Stereo
Aspect Ratio:1.33 : 1
Region:1

Summary

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. And Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

Credits

Sidney Poitier ... Gypsy Smith
Michael Moriarty ... John Maxwell
Joanna Going ... Rachel
Hart Bochner ... Shelby Hornbeck
Regina Taylor ... Drusilla
Billy Wirth ... Corby / White Wolf
Shirley Knight ... Aunt Bertha
Grace Zabriskie ... Rose
Basil Wallace ...
Jim Caviezel ... Dexter
Robert Guillaume ... Mossburger
Farrah Fawcett ... Nora Maxwell
John Pyper-Ferguson ... Sonny Boy (as John Pyper Ferguson)
Byron Chief-Moon ... Chief Walks-The-Clouds
Kevin McNulty ... Sheriff Harriman