DVD : The Dark Wind
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236146780
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 12370
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 12/16/2003 Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R
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The movie is almost as good as the book. We love Tony Hillerman stories about the SW and this is a great one.
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There are two versions of this film. This version, directed by Robert Redford and starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee and the PBS version with Adam Beach as Chee and Wes Studi as Leaphorn. What the author, Tony Hillerman, said about the actors in the making of "Coyote Waits" (one of the other PBS specials) was that Wes Studi was the man he saw as Leaphorn and he was beginning to see Jimmy Chee as a good deal more handsome after Adam Beach played him.
Well, I'm only seeing Adam Beach as Chee now, myself. And Fred Ward may be a good actor elsewhere, but Wes Studi's face was what I saw when I read Hillerman's novels, too.
The story in short. Jim Chee (Phillips) is a newly assigned cop to this beat of the Navajo-Hopi rez. His lieutenant Leaphorn (Ward) sets him on staking out the windmills to see who's destroying them. In the process, he finds a murdered man and a bigger crime than the windmill massacres. A drug smuggler's plane crash lands near the spot and Chee finds a dead man inside. The Federal officers and Leaphorn think he's involved. With the help of a Hopi Deputy (Gary Farmer) he sets out to solve the crime and clear several people's good names.
In this particular installation of the Hillerman based films, witchcraft and superstition are strong. The traditions are fascinating and the plot is complex. I much prefer the PBS version of "Skinwalker" though, even with the lower budget, I think it's the better film.
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The Dark Wind The dvd arrived in mint condition and was extremely enjoyable. I look forward to PBS producing more of Tony Hillerman's masterpieces.
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I watched this twice before really understanding it all and am I glad I did. I think Lou Diamond Phillips can really act and I thought his understanding and wisdom of Jim Chee's native American heritage and his more modern life as a peace officer was very well put together.I think he expressed it just as well. I felt this was worth watching and I will be viewing it again.
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Like some Hillerman type excitement and entertainment? Keep wishing...
Seeing Robert Redford's name in the credits of what might pass for a high school film class production is quite a disappointment, but then, if it didn't make the theaters I guess you shouldn't expect much from the cartoon-like characters.
The story has no explanation for the two suitcases of cocaine that suddenly appear in Che's truck at the end. You'll have to read the book to figure that out.
Watch for the boom mike overhead on camera, unedited, in the climatic ending scene.
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