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Walk the Proud Land
Walk the Proud Land is a 1956 CinemaScope Technicolor Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy and future Academy Award winner Anne Bancroft. It was filmed at Old Tucson.
Plot.
"Walk the Proud Land" is the true story of Indian agent John Clum (Audie Murphy) as told by Clum's son in the 1936 biography "Apache Agent". The film begins in 1874, as Clum, an Eastern government representative, arrives in San Carlos, Arizona. He is
was originally offered to Piper Laurie but she turned it down so she could study at the Actors Studio in New York. Pat Crowley was cast instead.
The right to use the title "Walk the Proud Land" was obtained from Logan Forster, author of "Proud Land," a novel of the same genre.
Reception.
The film was not a success at the box office, something attributed to the fact that Murphy played a pacifist rather than an action hero. This ended Murphy's plans to make