Eagle's Wing is a Euro-Western Eastmancolor film made in 1979. It stars Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston and Harvey Keitel. It was directed by Anthony Harvey, with a story by Michael Syson and a screenplay by John Briley. It won the British Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography Award for 1979. The story has three themes which run concurrently through the film. A stagecoach carrying a rich widow home to her family's hacienda. A war party of Indians, returning to their village; and two fur traders waiting to meet a different group of Indians with whom they trade. The war party attacks the... other Indians, and kills their leader, who owns a magnificent white stallion. White Bull attempts to capture the horse, but it is too quick, and makes off carrying the dead chief. Pike and Henry wait in vain for the traders, and are then attacked themselves by the war party. Henry is killed, the Indians take the trader's horses, and Pike is left alone with only a mule. Travelling alone, he comes across the ritual funeral of the dead chief. He saves the white stallion from ritual slaughter, abandons his mule, and continues his travels.
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| Release date: | 1979 |
| Directed by: | Anthony Harvey |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Editor: | Lesley Walker |
| Cinematography: | Billy Williams |
| Genre: | Western |