Released:
1983-03-11

Overview:
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff

Director:
Charles B. Pierce

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:
Drama, Western

• Cast:
• 
  Tim McIntire
  as
  Matt Colter
• 
  Jack Elam
  as
  Lum Witcher
• 
  L.Q. Jones
  as
  Tolbert Coleman
• 
  Ty Randolph
  as
  Wannetta
• 
  Eloy Casados
  as
  Prairie Fox