Naked in the Sun (1957)

Directors

R. John Hugh

Cast

James Craig, Lita Milan, Barton MacLane, Dennis Cross, Robert Wark, Jim Boles, Doug Wilson, Peter Dearing, Tony Morris, Mike Recco

The story

As white settlers push into Seminole lands in the Florida Everglades, an unscrupulous and brutal slave trader named Wilson (Barton MacLane) raids Seminole territory and captures Chechotah (Lita Milan), the wife of Seminole leader Chief Osceola (James Craig). This kidnapping ignites outrage and leads Osceola to rally his people, along with alliances involving escaped enslaved Black people who had found refuge with the Seminoles. The incident escalates into open conflict, drawing in the U.S.

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