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Flaming Star is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, and Steve Forrest, based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his better acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role.
Cyril John Mockridge (August 6, 1896 – January 18, 1979) was an English film and television composer. He received professional training at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Cyril J. Mockridge’s score is overemphatic and pushes Del Rio’s death scene, an already melodramatic scene, over the top. While the film, unlike Broken Arrow , is even handed in its depiction of racism (Neddy’s own sister rejects her for marrying a white man), its articulation of the Indian viewpoint seems stock.
Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, a half-breed youth in the Old West torn between loyalty to the whites, as represented by his father (John McIntyre), and the Indians, represented by his mother (Dolores Del Rio). A series of brutal Kiowa raids, and the subsequent reprisals by the white settlers, sorely test Pacer's fortitude.
The film was originally known as The Love Maniac and was announced in October 1956 as a vehicle for Elvis Presley and Jayne Mansfield. It was retitled A Private Affair in 1959. [4]
Flaming Star has Indians-on-the-warpath for the youngsters, Elvis Presley for the teenagers and socio -psychological ramifications for adults who prefer a mild dose of sage in their sagebrushers.
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
