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Show "Wikdlwalto"ffitaei Jim Utaiias .. .-, Or ! ' - , -: :,..::v4..i : ' ' . . A 4" " - - - ' :-v- : Jf? -' While the strike of actors has closed down movies all over the country, "Wind-walker" "Wind-walker" which is being made in Utah, will be able to finish production. According to an exception made for pictures which are in the closing stages of production, the Screen Actor's Guild approved appro-ved completion of the film, which has about two weeks ,of shooting left. Director Kieth Merrill said that interior shots were made last week on the Brigham Young University sound stage, an area where he learned much of his movie making experience. exper-ience. The crew and company com-pany are scheduled to do the last of the shooting at Arches National Monument in the Four Corners region of Utah, where - John Ford shot "Stagecoach,, in 1938. "IVindwilkcr" has been on location in Utah for more than two months. Many . scenes were shot in the Mirror lake region of the High Utntas in snowdrifts that were twelve to fourteen feet deep, according to MerriuV the oscar winning Utahn (for his documentary "The Great American Cowboy"). Cow-boy"). "Windwalker" stars the British actor, Trevor Howard, Ho-ward, ia? the role of an old Indian whose life's high spots & relived after he has been left for dead on an elevated burial scaffold in the tradition of Indians. He cries, 0 great Wanken Tanka, is not this a good day to die, to walk on the wind. " Howard, who has never portrayed an Indian before in his nearly fifty years of acting is the "Windwalker." After his return to London , foreign newspapers have carried numerous stories about Trevor Howard's role,' as well as the actor's reaction to his stay in Utah. One columnist wrote that Howard - had told him the film "was the most challenging lead role of my career. " All the other character roles in the pictures are Indians, including includ-ing Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin, Rudy Diaz, Harold Goss-Cbyote, ylvana Gallardo, Roberta De Hen-era, Dusty Ironwing McCrae, Billy Drago and Roy Cohoe, among others. Nick Ramus stated, 4i4Windwalker' is destined to become the most authentic Indian picture ever produced ... the story is magnificent ... the dialogue will be in Cheyenne and Crow." James Remar, young actor reliving "Windwalker" as a young man, and who starred in a recent lead "The long Riders" spent many hours of practice learning to ride without a saddle for his |
