When the Legends Die

When the Legends Die

Cover of the 1963 Lippincott first edition of When the Legends Die by Hal Borland.
Author Hal Borland
Cover artist Paul Laune
Country United States
Language English
Genre Young adult novel
Publisher Lippincott
Publication date
1963
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 288
When the Legends Die
Directed by Stuart Millar
Produced by Stuart Millar
Gene Lasko
Screenplay by Robert Dozier
Based on When the Legends Die
1963 novel
by Hal Borland
Starring Richard Widmark
Frederic Forrest
Luana Anders
Music by Glenn Paxton
Cinematography Richard H. Kline
Edited by Louis San Andres
Production
company
Sagaponack Films
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release dates
  • October 19, 1972 (1972-10-19)
Running time
107 min.
Country United States
Language English

When The Legends Die is both a 1963 novel, by Hal Borland, and a DeLuxe Color film released in 1972 by Twentieth Century-Fox.

Novel

The novel, about the life of a Ute Indian young man, was written in 1963 by Hal Borland. While it was written as a mainstream novel, it became a young adult classic. The novel is roughly divided into four parts: Tom Black Bull's youth with his parents who lived "off the reservation" in the wilderness of southern Colorado; Tom's experience as an orphan sent to the reservation school against his will; Tom's "abandonment" of the Indian lifestyle and his success on the rodeo circuit in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma; and finally Tom's return to his roots — reconciling himself with his heritage and his solitary relationship with the land and the wilderness.

Film

The film was made in 1972, starring Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest. It was directed by Stuart Millar from a screenplay written by Robert Dozier. It was freely adapted from the novel, updating the action from the start of the 20th century to the present, and cutting out the majority of the original plot, effectively based on only one middle section of the novel.

The title is taken from the saying "When the legends die the dreams end, when the dreams end there is no more greatness."

The film had a budget of $1,520,000.[1]

Plot

A Ute Indian youth, Tom Black Bull (Frederic Forrest), leaves the reservation to enter the rodeo life. He is under the tutelage of Red Dillon (Richard Widmark), a talented man with a drinking problem. The youth deals with the struggle between two worlds and deciding what life has to offer.

Cast

See also

References

  1. Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p257


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