Silent Tongue

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Silent Tongue
Directed by	Sam Shepard
Written by	Sam Shepard
Starring	Alan Bates Richard Harris Dermot Mulroney River Phoenix Sheila Tousey Jeri Arredondo Bill Irwin David Shiner Tim Scott Tantoo Cardinal
Music by	Patrick O'Hearn
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures
Release date	February 1, 1994 (1994-02-01)
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	United States United Kingdom France Netherlands
Languages	English French Dutch
Box office	$61,274

Silent Tongue is a 1994 American Western horror film written and directed by Sam Shepard. It was filmed in the spring of 1992, but not released until 1994. It was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico and features Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and River Phoenix.

Plot[]

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The film is about a young man named Talbot Roe (Phoenix), who has gone insane over the death of his wife. Talbot's father, Prescott Roe (Harris) feels his son's pain and wants to find him a new wife. He goes back to the place where he bought Talbot's first wife, from Eamon McCree (Bates). He finds the dead wife's sister (Arredondo), who is a champion horse rider and Mr. McCree's daughter, which makes her only half-Indian.

Roe asks McCree if he could have his last daughter for his son, but McCree refuses. Then, Roe kidnaps her and tries to get her to help him, and she takes the deal for gold and four horses. But Talbot is not taking any chances for her. He is too afraid that she will try to take his wife's corpse from him. And for the last few nights, he sees the ghost of his dead wife. She wants him to destroy her corpse, but he refuses.

Cast[]

Delay in release[]

The film was the last to be released featuring a performance by River Phoenix, who died on October 31, 1993, from a drug overdose. The film's release was delayed, and Phoenix continued to work on The Thing Called Love (the film he had just completed at the time of his death), which was released before Silent Tongue.

Reception[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 38% based on 16 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 4.9/10.^[1] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone awarded the film 4/4 stars, calling it "a demanding chunk of Shepard frontier poetry that shuns pretty-boy posturing".^[2]

See also[]

• List of ghost films

References[]

External links[]

• Silent Tongue at IMDb
• Silent Tongue at Box Office Mojo
• Silent Tongue at AllMovie
• Silent Tongue at Rotten Tomatoes