Flap (film)

Flap
Directed by Carol Reed
Produced by Jerry Adler
Screenplay by Clair Huffaker
Based on Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian
by Clair Huffaker
Starring Anthony Quinn
Claude Akins
Tony Bill
Shelley Winters
Victor Jory
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Cinematography Fred J. Koenekamp, A.S.C.
Edited by Frank Bracht, A.C.E.
Production
company
Produced in association with
Cine Vesta Associates
Distributed by Warner Bros. Inc.
Release date
  • November 1970 (1970-11)
Running time
 106 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Flap (distributed in Britain as The Last Warrior) is a 1970 American comedy-drama western film directed by Carol Reed and starring Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins and Shelley Winters.[1] Set in a modern Native American reservation, it is based on the novel Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker.[2]

Plot

Flapping Eagle lives on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States. He drinks too much, one of many sources of disagreement between Flap and his sweetheart, Dorothy Bluebell. He also has trouble with his arch-rival, Sgt. Rafferty, a brutal, bigoted police officer in town.

Flap launches protests, first disrupting a construction crew's bulldozer impeding on Indian land, then stealing a train after a lawyer, Wounded Bear, leads him to believe the train would become legal Indian property once it's in their territory.

Rafferty is violently beaten by Flap after a series of insults and abuses and the last straw, the shooting of a dog. Flap, now an Indian activist whose protests have gained him publicity and popularity, leads a protest march through the town. From a hospital window, Rafferty aims a rifle and assassinates him.

Cast

Music

The song "If Nobody Loves" was written by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Estelle Levitt. It is performed by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Evans, Peter William. Carol Reed. Manchester University Press, 2005.
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