This week’s mystery movie was the 1992 film Thunderheart, with Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson, Sheila Tousey, Chief Ted Thin Elk, John Trudel and Julius Drum.
| Casting by Lisa Clarkson. | Music composed by James Horner. |
| Costume designer Susan Lyall. | Edited by Ian Crafford. |
| Production designer Dan Bishop. | Photographed by Roger Deakins. |
| Executive producer Michael Nozik. | Written by John Fusco. |
| Produced by Robert De Niro,
Jane Rosenthal and John Fusco. |
Directed by Michael Apted. |
Further information on Thunderheart is available from the AFI Catalog.
Thunderheart is available on DVD from Critics’ Choice Video.
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I wanted to pay a tribute to Val Kilmer, but had a difficult time finding a movie that wasn’t too familiar and didn’t have a zillion screen caps on IMDB. Which is why I did Thunderheart and not Real Genius.
I’m going to guess Vincent Canby gave it a good review.
Way wrong: Janet Maselin (The New York Times, April 3, 1992):
The “Washington Redskin” of Thunderheart, as he is derisively called by the film’s American Indian characters, is an FBI agent who is sent from Washington to an Oglala Sioux reservation to investigate a crime. Raymond Levoi (Val Kilmer) does not welcome this assignment. Part Sioux himself, and too culturally assimilated to acknowledge that heritage, he resents having been selected for the job on the basis of his background. He refers contemptuously to various Indians as “Geronimo” and “Tonto” as a means of registering his unfamiliarity with their world.
But during the course of the story, Ray is freed from his high-handed superiority to Indian culture, made to understand the many problems of the violence-torn Indian community (the film is set in the late 1970s) and forced to accept his own past. “The same blood that was spilled in the grass and snow at Wounded Knee runs through your heart like a buffalo,” he is told by one of the story’s far more spiritually aware Indian characters.
For Monday, we have a mysterious guest.
Update: This is Ted Thin Elk.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery woman.
Update: This is Sheila Tousey.
Brain Trust roll call: Megan and Thom (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest), JRF (mystery movie and Monday’s mysterious guest), Anne Papineau (mystery movie, Monday’s mysterious guest and Mysterious Off-Screen Guy) and Stacia (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest).
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mysterious guest and an enigmatic motorcycle.
Update: This is Graham Greene.
Brain Trust roll call: Sarah (mystery movie and both mystery guests), JR F (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mystery woman) and Anne Papineau (Tuesday’s mystery woman).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mysterious guest and Back of the Head Guy.
Update: This is Sam Shepard and Val Kilmer as Back of the Head Guy.
Brain Trust roll call: Sarah (Wednesday’s mystery guest), Mary Mallory (mystery movie and all mystery guests), Sylvia (mystery movie and all mystery guests), J. Burt (mystery movie and Wednesday’s mysterious guest), Funky PhD (mystery movie and Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s mysterious guests), Greg (mystery movie and all mystery guests), Anne Papineau (Wednesday’s mysterious guest), L.C. (mystery movie and mystery cast) and Benito (mystery movie).
For Friday, we have our late leading man and a mysterious companion.
Update: This is Graham Greene, left, and Val Kilmer.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mysterious guest), Sarah (Thursday’s enigmatic guest), Mike Hawks (mystery movie, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s mysterious guests), Sylvia (Thursday’s mystery guest and Back of the Head Guy) and Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guest).
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Sam Jaffe in MACKENNA’S GOLD.
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Interesting guess, but alas, I’m afraid not…
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LITTLE BIG MAN and Dustin Hoffman.
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Intriguing guess, but alas, I’m afraid not.
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Sam Jaffe, perhaps?
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Two votes for Sam Jaffe…. but alas….
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Our movie is Thunderheart. Today’s guest is Ted Thin Elk. It’s been a long time since I’ve it, but I particularly remember John Trudell and the late Val Kilmer together.
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Ted TThin Elk in Thunderheart
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Val Kilmer addresses Ted Thin Elk in “Thunderheart.”
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That’s Ted Thin Elk in THUNDERHEART!
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It’s Ted Thin Elk and Sheila Tousey In my favorite Val Kilmer movie, Thunderheart (1992).
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Shelia Tousey, Thunderheart
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On Tuesday, Sheila Tousey
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Graeme Greene today.
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THUNDERHEART. Ted Thin Elk Monday with Val Kilmer os, Sheila Tousey, and Graham Greene probably talking to VK.
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Thanks to the appearance of Mr. Greene
Thunderheart 1992
Mon – Ted Thin Elk
Tues – Sheila Tousey
Wed – Graham Greene
Nice mystery movie pick to salute Mr. Kilmer.
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Wednesday’s picture is Graham Green, film is Thunder heart (1992).
R.I.P. Val Kilmer
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Wednesday’s mystery man is Graham Greene. The movie is “Thunderheart,” and Tuesday’s mystery woman is Sheila Tousey.
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Ted Thin Elk, Sheila Tousey and Graham Greene in Thunderheart.
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Graham Greene.
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Thunderheart (1992) w/Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Ted Thin Elk, Sheila Tousey, Fred Ward…
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izzat THUNDERHEART 1992?
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Sam shepard.
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Sam Shepard.
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Graham Greene and Sam Shepard in THUNDERHEART.
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Thur – Sam Shepard and Val Kilmer as BOTHG
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Not Sam Jaffe, but Sam SHEPARD
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Graham Greene and Val Kilmer.
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Graham Greene and Val Kilmer. I was hoping you’d include Davis Crosby, but alas!
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Graham Greene looks really great in this movie. About the same time he was in THUNDERHEART he was an occasional guest as Edgar the explosives enthusiast on “The Red Green Show and he was hilarious!
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Val Kilmer.
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Friday – a kinda denouement moment, with Graham Greene and Val Kilmer facing an OS corrupt Sam Shepard and Fred Ward. Up on top of the hills, the reservation’s ARM members protecting Kilmer and Greene.
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