SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff
Release: 1983
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Actors: Tim McIntire, Jack Elam, L.Q. Jones, Ty Randolph, Eloy Casados, Serene Hedin, Vernon Foster, Lefty Wild Eagle, Larry Kenoras
IMDB: 6.5
