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 best acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role. The film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of Black Star. The film reached No. 12 on the box-office charts. It was filmed in Utah and Los Angeles, as well as in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California. A road near Wildwood in Thousand Oaks has been named Flaming Star Avenue after the movie. Synopsis Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither. Primary cast Elvis Presley as Pacer Burton Barbara Eden as Roslyn Pierce Steve Forrest as Clint Burton Dolores del Río as Neddy Burton John McIntire as Sam "Pa" Burton L. Q. Jones as Tom Howard Douglas Dick as Will Howard Richard Jaeckel as Angus Pierce Rodolfo Acosta as Buffalo Horn Karl Swenson as Dred Pierce Ford Rainey as Doc Phillips Production Development The film was based on Clare Huffaker's novel Flaming Lance, which was published in 1958. Film rights were purchased by 20th Century Fox and Nunally Johnson was assigned to write the script. It was originally titled The Brothers of Flaming Arrow, then Flaming Lance. In May 1958, Fox announced that a film version would start shooting the following month. Johnson later recalled that the studio "said they couldn't make it because it would cost too much for a western and a western couldn't get in as much as it would cost, something like that." Huffaker was asked to make rewrites. "I took two weeks rewriting the script and only ten days of the book," he said. "I hate to say it but in rewriting the script I think it makes a better story than my original." Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando were originally slated to play the brothers before Fox decided to cast Presley in the lead role. Presley's previous film, G.I. Blues, had been a success at the