The Dark Wind (1991 film)
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94% Rotten Tomatoes | 5.7/10 IMDb 4/5 Amazon Initial release November 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Robert RedfordPatrick Markey Written by Eric BergrenNeal Jimenez Starring Lou Diamond PhillipsFred WardJohn KarlenGary Farmer Music director Michel Colombier, Jerry Goldsmith Cast Similar Skinwalkers, Sioux City, The Night Stalker, Turquoise Rose, Renegades | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dark Wind is a 1991 American mystery drama film based on The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman, one of a series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. It stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee and Fred Ward as Joe Leaphorn.
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Synopsis
As Officer Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) watches a windmill, trying to catch the vandal repeatedly sabotaging it, a small plane crashes nearby. Thus begins a tangled story involving not only the vandalism and the crash, but murder, drug smuggling, and burglary. Officer Chee is suspected by the FBI when drugs known to have been on the plane are missing.
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Reception
It was directed by Errol Morris, a documentary film-maker making his dramatic feature debut. Robert Redford was executive producer, hoping for a series of films, but he was unhappy with the production and director. In an article on the successful adaptation of Skinwalkers in 2002, Redford said of The Dark Wind that "The film, says Redford, wasn't any good and wasn't released. "That was a false start," Redford says. "It was miscast. It was ill-conceived and I didn't think it was the right beginning for the series. It wasn't distributed.""
Director Errol Morris did not finish the film due to "artistic differences" with Redford.
