screenshots / Windwalker / 1980 Santa Fe International

The film stars stage and screen English actor Trevor Howard, whose many roles include 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty and 1979's Hurricane.

Co-starring Native American actor Nick Ramus who later appeared in the made-for-television films The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1982) and Geronimo (1993).

Cast in the role of a young Windwalker, actor James Remar later appeared in the role of Creb in 1986's The Clan of the Cave Bear.

Appearing here as Crow Eyes, actor Rudy Diaz previously appeared as Running Bear in the 1968 Clint Eastwood film Coogan's Bluff.

Other than a voice-over narration by Nick Ramus, the film's dialogue is spoken in the Cheyenne and Crow languages (with English subtitles).

Directed by Kieth Merrill, whose other credits include the IMAX films Zion Canyon: Treasure of the Gods (1996) and Amazon (1997).

Utah filming locations in the Uinta Mountains include Diamond Fork Canyon and the Wasatch and Mirror Lake area.

Trevor Howard passed in 1988 at the age of 74.