Local premiere of Kevin Willmott’s “The Only Good Indian”
Event details
- Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, 7:05 p.m.
- Liberty Hall Cinema, 644 Massachussets Street, Lawrence
- Cost: $8
- Age limit: All ages
The Only Good Indian is a new feature film directed by KU Associate Professor Kevin Willmott (CSA: Confederate States of America) and starring Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans, Avatar). More showtimes It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January, and has screened at a bajillion other festivals. The film, written and produced by Thomas L. Carmody, also stars J. Kenneth Campbell (Bulworth, Yulee’s Gold) and newcomer Winter Fox Frank. In the film, Wes Studi portrays an early 1900’s Cherokee bounty hunter hired to return an escapee from an Indian boarding school. Winter Fox Frank plays the teenaged student who is trying to get back to his family on the Kickapoo of Kansas reservation and J. Kenneth Campbell plays a legendary “Indian fighter”-turned-sheriff who is after both of them. The cast also features Paul Butler (Reign Over Me), Thirza Defoe (Pow Wow Dreams), Laura Kirk (Lisa Picard is Famous, The Battle for Bunker Hill), Blake Robbins (Oz, The Office), Kevin Geer (American Gangster), Christopher Wheatley (Raising Jeffrey Dahmer), Scott Allegrucci (The Feud), Kip Niven (Magnum Force), Delanna Studi (Edge of America), Queen Bey (Ninth Street) and David Midthunder (Hidalgo). The film was shot in various Kansas locations.
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