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Death Throes. To a pounding, throbbing cacophony of percussion and the shrill tooting of a wooden flute, dancers in extravagant costumes celebrate legendary rituals, their stiff-legged gyrations seeming, like some ancient idol, only half alive. Dancer Jorge Tyller, a Yaqui Indian, reenacts with awesome control the death throes of a shot deer, his tortured posturings bringing to mind some kind of primitive sacrifice as seen by the victim...
...Only the Yaqui, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1880s, are not wards of the U.S. Government when they live on reservations, as most Indians still...
...this case, it is not very much. Guns is a story about a renegade soldier in 18th century Mexico, with a price on his head, who is given sanctuary by an old priest (Sam Jaffe) in the village of San Sebastian. The priest is murdered by the fierce Yaqui Indians, who attack the church as an instrument of the hated white man. They torture Quinn and order him to leave. A village girl (Anjanette Comer), plus his conscience, plus the devotion of the hapless villagers who mistake him for a priest all manage to change his course and set things...
...good one. The French producer-director team of Jacques Bar and Henri Verneuil shot the film in Mexico, which enabled them to hire a horde of bloodthirsty Indians who really look like bloodthirsty Indians -spraying arrows in all directions and falling off their horses in a veritable Yaqui Armageddon. The villagers' faces are also a pleasure to watch: this is one movie in which the scene stealing is done by the extras. But it is strictly petty larceny...
Ogle is a chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 175 Ibs.), flamboyant man, who hates neckties, wears baggy Western-cut pants and a battered Stetson, chews the ends of his pipes to bits. Part Spanish, English, Cherokee and Yaqui Indian, he was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas, the son of a logger who later became a railroad engineer. Ogle took calculus in high school, used a W.C.T.U. scholarship (he is no longer an abstainer) to help finance his studies at the University of Nevada, where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married...