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Flaming Star (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Flaming Star is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, and Steve Forrest, based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his better acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role.
Flaming Star: Directed by Don Siegel. With Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores Del Río. When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Flaming Star - Full Cast & Crew. Don Siegel directed this tale of Indian-white antagonism, featuring a surprisingly effective Elvis Presley as the half-Indian son of Dolores Del Rio and John...
Son (Elvis Presley) of settler and Kiowa must choose side in 1870s Texas.
Don Siegel. Director. Nunnally Johnson. Screenplay. Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
