The Return of a Man Called Horse is a 1976 American western film directed by Irvin Kershner involving a conflict over territory between Sioux Indians and white men. It is the sequel to A Man Called Horse and it was followed by The Triumphs of a Man Called Horse in 1982. Richard Harris reprises his role as Horse, a British aristocrat who has become a member of a tribe of Lakota Sioux. Trappers with government support force the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land. The Indians retreat, but await supernatural punishment to descend on their usurpers. Harris reprises his role as John Morgan,... 8th Earl of Kildare, who had lived with the tribe for years and is known as Horse, leaves his English fiancé and estate and returns to America, where he discovers the Yellow Hand people have been largely massacred or put into slavery by the unscrupulous white traders and their Indian cohorts. The few survivors, including wise old Running Bull and stubborn old Elk Woman have gone into the Badlands and been forced to eat their dogs. "Why did you return?" asks Elk Woman. "I had to come back," says Morgan. "I had to prove something to myself there was an empty place in my soul.
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| Release date: | June 28, 1976 |
| Directed by: | Irvin Kershner |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 129 Minutes |
| Producer: | Terry Morse, Jr. |
| Music by: | Laurence Rosenthal |
| Cinematography: | Owen Roizman |
| Screenplay by: | Jack DeWitt, Dorothy M. Johnson |
| Genre: | Western, Adventure |