How about some old-fashioned Indian torture? Paulette Goddard plays a white woman captured by Indians in this big budget Cecil B. DeMille adventure film. She is tied between two poles while her captors take spears out of the fire and menace her with them. One of the Indians rubs the hot spear across the bark of the tree she’s tied to and makes it flame up very close to her head. Then Indian chief sets fire to a pine cone and tosses it at the bound woman’s dress. Finally, another Indian dips a torch in oil from the pot, sets it alight and approaches our fair maiden. But Gary Cooper comes to her rescue before any further harm can come to her. From what I understand, the book the film was based on was much more explicit, but DeMille toned down the torture quite a bit. This one is begging for a remake.
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