Flaming Star
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Flaming Star is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden, based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role. The film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of Black Star.
The movie reached No. 12 on the box office charts.
It was filmed in Utah, Los Angeles and in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California. A road near Wildwood in Thousand Oaks has been named Flaming Star Avenue after the movie.
Synopsis
Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither.
Primary cast
- Elvis Presley as Pacer Burton
- Barbara Eden as Roslyn Pierce
- Steve Forrest as Clint Burton
- Dolores del Río as Neddy Burton
- John McIntire as Sam "Pa" Burton
- L. Q. Jones as Tom Howard
- Douglas Dick as Will Howard
- Richard Jaeckel as Angus Pierce
- Rodolfo Acosta as Buffalo Horn
- Karl Swenson as Dred Pierce
- Ford Rainey as Doc Phillips
See also
- List of American films of 1960
- Elvis Presley on film and television
- Elvis Presley discography
- List of most expensive paintings
- Eight Elvises
- Triple Elvis
