tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post7677926253801248840..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Review of Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest AthleteRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-43723281617433323202010-11-30T15:53:41.688-08:002010-11-30T15:53:41.688-08:00I have a Jim Thorpe post coming in my blog; I keep...I have a Jim Thorpe post coming in my blog; I keep forgetting to do it.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-38743979311770613872010-11-30T06:42:12.936-08:002010-11-30T06:42:12.936-08:00I still liked the Burt Lancaster film and portraya...I still liked the Burt Lancaster film and portrayal in "JIM THORPE ALL AMERICAN" - 1951, even though he (Lancaster) is non-native, the film doesn't paint a myth, it shows all the struggles Thorpe went through.<br /><br />I liked Burt Lancaster in another film where he struggles, but manages to speak Kiowa, "The Scalphunters" 1968 is a Sydney Pollack film that is close, but not nearly as native as "Little Big Man" was to a comedy-western.<br /> <br />It unfortunately uses an Italian as the leading Kiowa warrior role, but the rest of the cast is great with Telly Savalas as the villian, Shelley Winters as his mistress, Ossie Davis as a runaway slave "adopted by the Comanches, and a young Dabney Coleman as one of the scalphunters.<br /><br />I'd like to see this documentary on Thorpe.Burtnoreply@blogger.com