Thorpe’s story was previously told in 1951’s Jim Thorpe: All American, which starred Burt ... but we have never shared the vision of a movie until the authentic portrayal in Bright Path ...

This is the gift of Jim’s legacy to us all.” Thorpe ... in making this movie a reality.” The package has come together thanks to the efforts of numerous Native American tribes that have ...

He has long known that the life of Jim Thorpe is one of ... is an important element in all of my films,” Harjo said. “(It should be) a story of how a Native American can adapt and make a ...

For 20 long years after Jim Thorpe signed a contract with Hollywood, the sporting colossus from the Sac and Fox Nation waited anxiously for the studios to produce a movie about his life.

He had bit parts in about 70 movies, including name pictures ... Look no further than the 1953 biopic “Jim Thorpe, All-American”: Thorpe was played by Burt Lancaster, and most of the other ...

working as an extra in movies, construction, security and ditch-digging. In 1951, his life was chronicled in the Warner Bros. film “Jim Thorpe – All-American” starring Burt Lancaster.

The story of Jim Thorpe, America’s greatest-ever athlete and Native American icon ... cowboys and Indians movies, and when you only see yourself on the TV screen dying all the time to cowboys ...