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Indian Agent (film)
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Lesley Selander
| producer = Herman Schlom
| writer = Norman Houston
| starring = Tim Holt
Noah Beery Jr.
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| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
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| runtime = 64 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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'Indian Agent' is a 1948 Western film starring Tim Holt as a cowboy trying to convince Indians not to go on the warpath due to the activities of a corrupt Indian agent.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story.' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p230
Background
The film was finished in May 1948. It was released in December 1948 on a double bill with 'He Walked By Night'.
Significance
The so-called A Westerns are often credited with the major break throughs in movie making culture. So we often overlook the significance of the so-called B Westerns. A good example. Any Western Movie fan knows that the July 1950 released A Western Broken Arrow (1950 film) pioneered early attempts to bring a more positive pro-aboriginal or pro-indigenous perspective to the USA's early peoples. However, with this earlier movie filmed in May 1948, Writer Norman Houston, Producer Herman Schlom, and the All-Time Movie Volume Western Movie Director Lesley Selander, advanced "the goal posts" even closer to that date in July 1950 with this December 1948 released B Western movie which portrayed the USA's earliest people in a more positive light.
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*[https://archive.org/stream/variety172-1948-11#page/n70/mode/1up Review of film] at 'Variety'
Category:1948 films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:1948 Western (genre) films
Category:RKO Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Lesley Selander
Category:1940s American films
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