Cinema: Indian Giver

THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE

Directed by IRVIN KERSHNER

Screenplay by JACK DE WITT

When last glimpsed six years ago in A Man Called Horse, Sir John Morgan (Richard Harris) had become an honorary blood brother to a tribe of Sioux. The operative word here is blood. Morgan, an English lord on tour of the U.S. in the early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by...

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