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Genre
  
Drama, Horror, Western

Music director
  
Patrick OHearn

Writer
  
Sam Shepard

Language
  
English

5.2/10
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Director
  
Sam Shepard

Initial DVD release
  
May 3, 2005

Duration
  

Country
  
United States United Kingdom France Netherlands

Silent Tongue movie poster

Release date
  
February 1, 1994 (1994-02-01)

Cast
  
Alan Bates
(Eamon McCree),
Richard Harris
(Prescott Roe),
River Phoenix
(Talbot Roe),
Dermot Mulroney
(Reeves McCree),
Tantoo Cardinal
(Silent Tongue),
Bill Irwin
(Comic)

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,
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,
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,
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,
The Eye
,
Four Eyes

Tagline
  
Justice can never be silenced.

Silent tongue 1994 trailer


Silent Tongue is a Western written and directed by Sam Shepard. It was filmed in the spring of 1992, but not released until 1994. It was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico and features Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and River Phoenix.

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The film is about a young man named Talbot Roe (Phoenix), who's gone insane over the death of his wife. Talbot's father, Prescott Roe (Harris) feels his son's pain and wants to find him a new wife. He goes back to the place where he bought Talbot's first wife, from Eamon McCree (Bates). He finds the dead wife's sister (Tousey), who is a champion horse rider and Mr. McCree's daughter, which makes her only half-Indian. Roe asks McCree if he could have his last daughter for his son, but McCree refuses. Then, Roe kidnaps her and tries to get her to help him, and she takes the deal for gold and four horses. But Talbot isn't taking any chances for her—he's too afraid that she'll try to take his wife's corpse from him. And for the last few nights, he sees the ghost of his dead wife, who wants him to destroy her corpse, but he won't.

Silent Tongue movie scenes

Silent tongue 5 of 12 with river phoenix


Cast

Silent Tongue movie scenes

  • Richard Harris as Prescott Roe
  • Sheila Tousey as Awbonnie / Ghost
  • Alan Bates as Eamon McCree
  • River Phoenix as Talbot Roe
  • Dermot Mulroney as Reeves McCree
  • Jeri Arredondo as Velada McCree
  • Tantoo Cardinal as Silent Tongue
  • Bill Irwin as Comic
  • David Shiner as Straight Man
  • Tommy Thompson as Medicine Show Band Performer
  • Jack Herrick as Medicine Show Band Performer
  • Bland Simpson as Medicine Show Band Performer
  • Clay Buckner as Medicine Show Band Performer
  • Chris Frank as Medicine Show Band Performer
  • Arturo Gil as Little Person Acrobat #1
  • Delay in release

    Silent Tongue movie scenes

    The film was the last full film to be released featuring a performance by River Phoenix, who died on October 31, 1993 from a drug overdose. The film's release was delayed, and Phoenix continued to work on The Thing Called Love (the film he had just completed at the time of his death), which was released before Silent Tongue.

    Silent Tongue movie scenes

    The various release dates of Silent Tongue are : Sundance Film Festival - 28 January 1993 Native American Film Festival - November 1993 London Film Festival - 15 November 1993 U.S. Public Release - 1 February 1994

    References

    Silent Tongue Wikipedia
    Silent Tongue IMDbSilent Tongue Rotten TomatoesSilent Tongue themoviedb.org