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| The Dark Wind | |
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| Directed by | Errol Morris |
| Screenplay by | Eric Bergren Neal Jimenez |
| Based on | The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman |
| Produced by | Patrick Markey |
| Starring | Lou Diamond Phillips Fred Ward John Karlen Gary Farmer |
| Cinematography | Stefan Czapsky |
| Edited by | Freeman Davies Susan Crutcher |
| Music by | Michel Colombier |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Seven Arts (through New Line Cinema) |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Navajo Hopi |
The Dark Wind is a 1991 American mystery drama film based on The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman, one of a series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. Directed by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in his fiction debut, it stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee and Fred Ward as Joe Leaphorn.
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Robert Redford acted as executive producer, hoping for a series of films, but was ultimately unhappy with the result, which he called "a false start", "miscast" and "ill-conceived", and it was not distributed. However, Redford would persist in his efforts to adapt Hillerman's books, acting as executive producer on the film Skinwalkers in 2002, and on the television series Dark Winds (2022-present), which would be his final work. [1] [2]
