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product_id: 1858690
title: "Silent Tongue"
brand: "arredondo, jeriattmore, philip"
price: "KSh3043"
currency: KES
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reviews_count: 11
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# Silent Tongue

**Brand:** arredondo, jeriattmore, philip
**Price:** KSh3043
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Silent Tongue by arredondo, jeriattmore, philip
- **How much does it cost?** KSh3043 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

A surreal western directed by playwright/actor Sam Shepard. Taking place on the desolate untamed Llano Estacado in 1873, a young half-Native American is stolen from her drunken white father by desperate cowboy, Prescott Roe, who wants her for his grief-stricken son, Talbot, whose wife has died. With the father and his son in hot pursuit, Roe brings the woman to his son, who must reconcile the past with the present before accepting the beautiful half-breed.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    What is love?
  

*by C***P on Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2009*

In a tribute, a Rolling Stone reviewer suggested this was the quintessential River Phoenix movie. I disagree, he gives a much better performance in 'My Own Private Idaho' but this story is better written. It's not really a western, though it is set in that time and place we nostalgically yearn for, with stark wide open spaces in hues of tan and brown. There's lots of dust and horses and broken people trying to mend their fragile lives. There's even a snake oil salesman and his son, complete with sideshow and assorted freaks. Richard Harris plays a father who loves his son (Phoenix) so much that he will purchase a wife for his sad and lonely child, but when she dies in childbirth, why not purchase her twin sister from the shifty, snake oil hawker who fathered them? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Phoenix broods over the body of his lost love wrapping her in hides and suspending her body in a dead tree. He will not let her go and her spirit doesn't want to stay. Her soul visits him in visions that become so real to him that he almost shoots himself. He can't or won't do it, to join her would be love, to hold on to her is pure selfishness. Her twin sister knows that the dead are powerful and she agrees to help Harris break the hold his son has on her sister, but then she's outta there. Conceived in rape, she knows that she is a double second class citizen. One, she's a woman, and two she's half white and half native. She has nothing but her wits and a dark opportunity to free herself from her father and his mad schemes. She'll take four horses for her trouble and the hope for a new life. (Even the female actresses, who deliver wonderful performances, are overshadowed by their male co-stars in the marketing of this film.)  Although told like a ghost story, this is really a love story about a father's love for his son. Harris will do anything for his child, even fight the apparition of his former daughter-in-law that appears in the form of a wolf. Steeped in native mythology and mysticism this story speaks of ties we create between those we love and those we use. In contrast, the snake oil vendor sees his daughters as commodities. The only love that exited for these lost, little girls was their mother, Silent Tongue, who couldn't even cry out when she was raped by their father. Another victim of his entrepreneurial father, is the twin's half brother, who insists on setting out after his half sister is abducted by Harris, and dragging his father along to do the 'right thing' and rescue her. The entire cast give strong and beautiful performances. It's a crime this is not available in wide screen because the melancholy landscape, is itself, a character in this tale. The film is rife with metaphor and if you want to think and be entertained this is the journey you'll want to take between real love and what poses for the love between us. Even though it is offered in a full screen format it is a good value for the prices that it is offered at. For those who prefer to have nonviolent fare, there are a few scenes including the rape that are inappropriate or upsetting. Overall I didn't know what to expect, but I was surprised and pleased by this complex study of relationships that transcend time and place.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A weird watchable movie...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2021*

This is an extremely weird movie about a myriad of things, including a man who has a dependance on being married to a bride he purchases and will not allow her tormented soul to rest in peace. It's neither a fantastic movie, nor a terrible one. Something about it is more like a "Twilight Zone" meets "Tales From The Crypt." Honestly, I felt that it hit somewhere in the middle, entertainment wise. Both of the native American women in it are cute, even the one who has half of her face marred for horrific effect. Her natural form is shown at the end dancing in a fire. There's some fancy horse riding, a Wild West sort of side show/carnival in it. This is totally worth watching for anyone who likes strange/bizarre western films. I'd be fine with watching it again. ...If MST3K utilized this, it'd be the best thing in the world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Vengeful Spirit Haunts This Interesting And Artisitic Film
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2017*

I found the story interesting and the filming creative and a bit strange (one reason I enjoyed it so much).  It's a tale about a man named Prescott Roe (Richard Harris) who buys a woman from Eamon McCree (Alan Bates), the proprietor of a traveling show, to be a wife for Roe's son Talbot (River Phoenix).  The woman dies in childbirth as well as the baby and Talbot is despondent and sits beneath a tree in the wilderness where he guards his late wife's body.  Her vengeful spirit repeatedly attacks him and demands that he "free" her yet he can't bring himself to honor her requests.  Meanwhile, Roe goes in search of the traveling show, once again, in hopes of purchasing the twin sister of his late daughter-in-law, believing she might help his disturbed son let go of the past.  But when the McCree refuses his request, Roe kidnaps the girl and they are followed across the frontier by McCree (who is also the father of the twins, conceived when he raped their mother, Silent Tongue) and their half brother, Reeves (Dermot Mulroney).  Later, after agreeing to try and help the son for a price, the girl encounters the raging ghost of her sister, which then turns its wrath on her.

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