Ace in the Hole (1951), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Dances with Wolves (1990), The Man from Earth (2007), Harry and Tonto (1974), Unconquered (1947), Quigley Down Under (1990), Soldier Blue (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Medicine Man movies.
Storyline: In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to America to live again with the Yellow Hand. Finding them dispirited, he invigorates them as well as himself through self-imposed torture and other rituals. Once he convinces the clan to take direct action, Horse must devise a strategy to take the trappers' fort. The clan's women and boys take on special assignments to aid the assault to regain the sacred land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: sequel, opening action scene, flintlock pistol, flintlock rifle, musket, gunfight, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace. During the hunt, one of the guides discovers that he has an ESP connection to the giant creature.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: truck, racial slur, map, killing an animal, taking a picture, camera, newspaper ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1876, Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk, Colorado on time, to keep it from competing with his stagecoach line. Kit, who must get the train to its goal, forces Johnny aboard as the needed passenger. Madame Adelaide's showgirls (including Marilyn as Clara) ride along and, en route to Tomahawk, join Johnny in "Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are".—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: railway, train engineer, train conductor, grandfather, fireworks, knocked unconscious, dynamite ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman", he rejects her help. Meanwhile, the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin to fall in love.
Plot Keywords: monkey, medical research, guinea pig, falling off a cliff, skinny dipping, see through bra, nipples visible through clothing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: native american attack, soldier, u.s. cavalry, culture clash, 19th century, character name as title, native american chief ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each other from the evil cattle rustler Cash Hawkins and marry. Lady Diana shows up to announce Sir Henry's death. After Nat-U-Rich's suicide Wynnegate takes his half-breed son and Lady Diana back to England as the new Earl of Kerhill.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on play, forgery, gunfire, horse race, jealousy, loneliness, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religeous zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne; but the love of her family and the power of psychic Tangina once again unite, along with an elderly native American, to fight for her life.
Plot Keywords: supernatural horror, possession, sequel, ritual, spiritualism, haunting, alternate dimension ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: revisionist western, u.s. cavalry, cavalry charge, indian war, bow and arrow, medicine man, attack ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1848 Montana Territory, a young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontier man John Colter who goes on an epic search for his daughter Beth, and is aided by a friendly native, named Standing Bear, as well as Trapper Willis, a fur trapper and trader whom brave the elements of nature as well as hostile native warriors to find Beth and bring her home. At the same time, Beth becomes intrigued by her own captor who has reason for his taking of Beth.—Larry B.
Plot Keywords: shot in the back, kidnapped woman, shotgun, ritual, silhouette, abduction, deer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Plot Keywords: slapstick comedy, love, elephant, bird, rhinoceros, child in jeopardy, medicine man ...
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