Dances With Wolves

Adventure, Drama, Western

Kevin Costner	Lt. John Dunbar
Rodney A. Grant	Wind In His Hair
Graham Greene	Kicking Bird
Mary McDonnell	Stands With A Fist
Robert Pastorelli	Timmons
Floyd Westerman	Ten Bears
Tantoo Cardinal	Black Shawl
Charles Rocket	Lt. Elgin
Maury Chaykin	Major Fambrough
Jimmy Herman	Stone Calf
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman	Ten Bears
Kirk Baltz
Tom Everett
Wayne Grace
Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse	Smiles A Lot
Michael Spears	Otter
Jason R. Lone Hill	Worm
Tony Pierce	Spivey
Doris Leader Charge	Pretty Shield

Director	Kevin Costner
Producer	Kevin Costner; Jim Wilson; Bonnie Arnold
Writer	Michael Blake
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Musician	John Barry; Peter Buffett

The epic western Dances With Wolves is the story of a lone man sent to the American frontier during the Civil War. After heroically rallying his unit while attempting to commit suicide, John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is given the opportunity to be reassigned and chooses a distant frontier post. When Dunbar reaches his post he finds it has been abandoned and left in ruins by the previous soldiers stationed there. Refusing to leave his post he sets out to fix things and soon finds himself in contact with a local Sioux tribe and begins a diplomatic undertaking with them. While befriending the Sioux, he meets Stands With a Fist (Mary McDonnell) who is a white woman raised by the Sioux, and eventually marries her. Receiving the name Dances With Wolves from the natives because of his pet wolf, Two Socks, Dunbar slowly becomes very enveloped in the Sioux life near to forgetting that he isn't one of them. That all changes when the Army comes to reclaim his post and everything changes for him as he becomes the enemy of a state on the edge of the Native American frontier.