Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale
Directed by Xavier Koller, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Adam Beach, Sric Schweig, Michael Gambon, Nathaniel Parker, Alex Norton, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Stuart Pankin, Donal Donnelly, Mandy Patinkin.

Here’s a news flash: Native Americans get the shaft… again. This movie about the warrior Squanto, who, after his capture by the British in the early 1600s, subsequent enslavement, and shipwreck survival, shared survival techniques with the Pilgrims. Obviously, this was meant for a fall release, in order to tie in to Thanksgiving. But that never happened and Squanto is being dumped into the dollar houses — never a good sign. I would expect a rather Disneyfied version of the Squanto legend but, then again, Disney is the studio that gave us this year’s transvestite Ed Wood biopic.

This article appears in December 16 • 1994 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.