Windwalker is a 1981

1981 in film

-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....

 western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 adventure

Adventure

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, based on a novel by Blaine M. Yorgason, starring Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.-Early life:...

 and Nick Ramus

Nick Ramus

Nickolas G. Ramus was a Native American actor, best known for his appearances on television. He was a Blackfoot.He appeared as Chief Lost Eagle of the Arapaho in the miniseries "Centennial" He also appeared in the 1993 TNT TV film Geronimo about the historical Apache warrior with the same name.He...

. It was shot in various outdoor locations in Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

. To maintain authenticity to the story, the film's dialogue is subtitled in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 with Cheyenne

Cheyenne language

The Cheyenne language is a Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma in the United States. It is part of the Algonquian language family...

 and Crow

Crow language

Crow is a Missouri Valley Siouan language spoken primarily by the Crow Nation in present-day southeastern Montana...

 languages spoken. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning director Kieth Merrill

Kieth Merrill

Kieth W. Merrill is an American filmmaker who has worked as a writer, director, and producer in the film industry since 1967...

 and is rated PG in the USA. The music was composed by Merrill Jenson

Merrill Jenson

Merrill Boyd Jenson is an American composer and arranger who has composed film scores for over thirty films including Emma Smith: My Story, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd, Legacy, Harry’s War, and Windwalker...

.

Plot

Trevor Howard plays Windwalker, an aged Cheyenne warrior. As a husband and father, he helplessly watched the killing of his wife and the kidnapping of one of his sons during a raid by Crow warriors. After many years of searching for his lost son unsuccessfully, Windwalker dies, but the Great Spirit reawakens him for one final task: to answer the mystery about his missing son in order for him to have a peaceful afterlife.

Main cast

• Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.-Early life:...
  
   ... Windwalker
• Nick Ramus
  Nick Ramus
  Nickolas G. Ramus was a Native American actor, best known for his appearances on television. He was a Blackfoot.He appeared as Chief Lost Eagle of the Arapaho in the miniseries "Centennial" He also appeared in the 1993 TNT TV film Geronimo about the historical Apache warrior with the same name.He...
  
   ... Smiling Wolf/Crow Brother/Narrator
• James Remar
  James Remar
  James Remar is an American actor and voice artist. He has appeared in movies, video games, and TV shows. He is perhaps best known as Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City, as Ajax in The Warriors, as the homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in the 1982...
  
   ... Windwalker as a young man
• Serene Hedin ... Tashina
• Dusty McCrea ... Dancing Moon
• Silvana Gallardo
  Silvana Gallardo
  Silvana Gallardo is an American actress.She has been mostly active in television. Her credits include: Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Lou Grant, Quincy, Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, Falcon Crest, Trapper John M.D., The Golden Girls, Knots Landing, MacGyver, LA Law, Babylon 5, ER and NYPD Blue...
  
  ... Little Feather
• Emerson John ... Spotted Deer

DVD details

• Release date: January 1, 2003
• Full Screen
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Audio tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)

English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)

Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)

• Subtitles: English
• Special Features: Cast info

Original commercials

Producer's lifetime achievement award

Still gallery

• Running time: 106 minutes