How long is dancing with wolves

Adventure Drama Western. Director Kevin Costner. Michael Blake screenplay by. Top credits Director Kevin Costner. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary Edition. Photos Top cast Edit. Rodney A. Robert Pastorelli Timmons as Timmons. Michael Spears Otter as Otter. Jason R. Lone Hill Worm as Worm.

Tony Pierce Spivey as Spivey. Kirk Baltz Edwards as Edwards. Kevin Costner. Michael Blake screenplay by based on his novel. More like this. Watch options.

Storyline Edit. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways. Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Because of the film's enormous success and sympathetic treatment of the Native Americans, the Sioux Nation adopted Kevin Costner as an honorary member. Goofs Electric power lines are visible during the buffalo hunt. Her story was the basis of another Western classic, The Searchers A coach was brought in to teach castmembers unfamiliar with the language, like Greene, to speak Lakota. Capping the film is its lush symphonic score, composed by John Barry.

Costner would have three more hits after Wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and JFK in and the sensationally successful The Bodyguard —then suffer a decade-long cold streak snapped by another, more modestly popular and traditional Western he directed and starred in, Open Range Inarritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Tours of the South Dakota locations are available, so you can experience Dances with Wolves as living history. To celebrate the classic s TV show, here a few fun facts that will make you happy.

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Included in the new footage is a trek undertaken by Dunbar and his best Indian friend, Kicking Bird, in which they come upon a forest despoiled by white hunters. In general, the longer version portrays the Sioux more brutally and realistically. Additional scenes also sharpen the courtship and marriage between Dunbar and a Sioux woman played by Mary McDonnell. The personal and cultural gap between them is now emphasized more strongly.