A MAN NAMED SCHWARTZ

A MAN CALLED HORSE (1970)
dir: Eliot Silverstein

A MAN NAMED SCHWARTZ
Sick #79, October 1970
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jack Sparling

Englishman John Morgan (Richard Harris) is captured by Sioux, and treated as their horse. The first act is sort of a combination of The Naked Prey and Passion of the Christ.

S. D. S. stood for Students for a Democratic Society.

While Morgan is being tortured, he befriends Batise (Jean Bascon), the fool of the tribe who passes as one of them, but was a Canadian captured by them years earlier and tried to escape, but decided to stay. He is the only person who speaks English and acts as a translator.

Oh, Calcutta was a Broadway show in which all the actors were nude.

After killing members of the warring Shoshone tribe to gin their respect, he falls in love with Running Deer (Corrina Tsopei), sister of the chief.

In order to marry the chief's sister, Mr. Morgan must show his worth in the form of more torture.

Morgan becomes their chief when he wins the battle against an invasion of Shoshone.

I never heard of the movie either but apperently it was successful enough for there to be two sequels.