Sacred Ground
MovieTitle | Sacred Ground |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Mar 11, 1983 |
Genre | Drama, Western |
Director | Charles B. Pierce |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Wilderness Family Inc, Pacific International Enterprises |
Run time | 100 min. |
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff