The McMasters
Cast & Crew
Alf Kjellin
Brock Peters
Burl Ives
David Carradine
Nancy Kwan
Jack Palance
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Benjie returns to his hometown in the South after fighting for the North and meets with hostility from Kolby, a bigoted rancher who lost his arm while fighting for the Confederacy, and Russell, Kolby's ranch hand. Neal McMasters, a rancher who reared Benjie from childhood, offers him a half-share of his ranch. No one will work for Benjie because he is black, and McMasters is almost forced to sell Benjie's land, but Benjie's kindness to an Indian, White Feather, is reciprocated when members of his tribe arrive to help with the roundup. In further gratitude, White Feather presents Robin, his sister, to Benjie for his wife. Kolby leads some of the townsfolk in a drunken attack on McMasters and Benjie, and Robin is raped. The Indians refuse Benjie's plea for help, arguing that a black landowner is no better than the white landowners who stole their land. Despite pleas from Spencer, a liberal rancher, Kolby organizes another attack in which McMasters is killed and the house burned. Benjie is about to be hanged when the Indians launch a counterattack and kill Kolby. Benjie decides to stay on at the ranch with Robin.
Director
Alf Kjellin
Cast
Brock Peters
Burl Ives
David Carradine
Nancy Kwan
Jack Palance
Dane Clark
John Carradine
L. Q. Jones
R. G. Armstrong
Frank Raiter
Alan Vint
Marion Brash
Neil Davis
Paul Eichenberg
Richard Alden
Lonnie Samuel
Albert Hockmeister
Rev. David Strong
Dumas Slade
Joan Howard
William Kiernan
José Maranio
Leo Dillenschneider
Richard Martinez
Joseph Duran
Bill Alexander
Frank Nanoia
David Welty
Crew
Ted Alires
Ray De Camp
Dimitri De Grunwald
Dimitri De Grunwald
Sandy Dvore
Harry F. Hogan
George R. Nelson
Coleridge-taylor Perkinson
Rodd Redwing
Monroe Sachson
Joel Schiller
Melvin Shapiro
Lester Shorr
Harold Jacob Smith
John V. Speak
Herman Townsley
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Filmed in New Mexico. Also known as The Blood Crowd. Also shown in a 97-min version during its first New York engagement.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States 1970
